The Phoenix Pencil Company

In this dazzling debut novel of love and secret histories, a young woman unearths the story of a lost Shanghai pencil company and a hidden family ability which will alter the path of her life forever. At once a sweeping family epic and an uplifting love story with deep emotional resonance, Allison King's brilliantly inventive debut novel pushes us to question how well we really know our own stories and the many beguiling ways they connect our lives.