{"product_id":"silk-and-sensibility-mengxi-seeley-9781639935826","title":"Silk and Sensibility","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA charming \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eretelling of Jane Austen's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSense and Sensibility\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e set in Ming-dynasty China. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo sisters with conflicting attitudes on passion and restraint must each choose between the traditions that bind their hearts and pursing the love that could save them. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNineteen-year-old Ailin is torn between duty and desire. Following her father's death, her family must rely on the wealthy Jiang clan for financial survival. Though Ailin knows she must marry strategically to help her family, her heart has already been captured by the poor but gentle scholar Enze. When his family opposes their union, Ailin knows she must hide her feelings from everyone until she can strengthen her dowry and stand on her own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeilin encourages her older sister to fight for her personal desires, but Meilin's romantic ideals conflict with Ailin's devotion to duty. Meilin believes in being honest about one's feelings regardless of what others may think, and she unabashedly pursues a charming playwright while also clashing with a frustratingly handsome but gruff army captain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sisters would do anything to help the other find happiness, but their assumptions about restraint and passion are as different as earth and sky. Ailin feels honor bound to her family yet is unable to deny her love for Enze, even as circumstances push them further apart, while Meilin grapples with unexpected feelings for Captain Bai and societal restrictions that leave little room for her own hopes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSilk and Sensibility \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the delicate cultural expectations of womanhood in historical China by following two sisters who must learn to balance loyalty and longing, courage and constraint, to claim their own happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mengxi Seeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639935827\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639935826\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Shadow Mountain\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Mengxi Seeley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48443263844607,"sku":"9781639935826","price":29.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea205b90-7bbe-4b6c-878e-84e181d3b1db.jpg?v=1777204345","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/silk-and-sensibility-mengxi-seeley-9781639935826","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}