Their Divine Fires Travel But after the mermaid is

But after the mermaid is caught by American tourists

Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look

She didn't fold a single piece of laundry for seven months

A scintillating satire of the American abroad

set out to track her down

Their Divine Fires Travel But after the mermaid isA captivating and intimate debut novel interwoven with folktale and myth, Wendy Chen's Their Divine Fires tells the story of the love affairs of three generations of Chinese women across one hundred years of revolutions both political and personal. In 1917, at the dawn of the Chinese revolution, Yunhong is growing up in the southern china countryside and falls deeply in love with the son of a wealthy landlord despite her brother's objections. On the