An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love

We have three souls, roughly I’d been told. But just in death could I confirm this….

So starts the haunting and captivating story, set in 1935 China, from the ghost of a young girl named Leiyin, who watches her own funeral from over and wonders as to why she is being denied entry to the afterlife. Beside her are three souls-stern and scholarly yang; impulsive, intimate yin; and sensible, shining hun-who will information around three Souls: A Book her toward understanding. She must, they tell her, make amends.

As Leiyin delves back in its history with the three souls to examine her life, she sees the spoiled and privileged teenager she once was, a girl who is worried about her own wishes while China is fractured by civil battle and public upheaval. At a celebration, she meets Hanchin, a captivating left-wing poet and translator, and immediately falls in love with him.

When Leiyin defies her dad to pursue Hanchin, she learns the harsh truth-that she actually is powerless more than her destiny. Her abuse for disobedience qualified prospects to exile, an unwanted marriage, a being pregnant, and, eventually, her death. And when she discovers what she must do to become released from limbo into the afterlife, Leiyin realizes that enough time for making amends can be shorter than she thought.

Suffused with history and literature, 3 Souls is an epic tale of revenge and betrayal, forbidden love, and the purchase price we are prepared to pay for freedom.