You Are One of Them: A Novel about Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away POL042020 This book is full of

This book is full of insights and is a must-read

one that carries the reader along every twist and turn of the empress's often thorny path

Beginning with an hour-by-hour account of one day in Yongle's court

Drawing on diaries and letters

Replicated images helped to structure private religious practice

You Are One of Them: A Novel about Secrets, Betrayal, and the Friend Who Got Away POL042020 This book is full of"A hugely absorbing first novel from a writer with a fluid, vivid style and a rare knack for balancing the pleasure of entertainment with the deeper gratification of insight. More, please." Maggie Shipstead, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A story about Russia, the United States, friendship, identity, defection, and deception that is smart, startling, and worth reading regardless of when you were born." Kathryn Schulz, New York