Four Treasures of the Sky

Critics Review

• An engulfing, bighearted and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates shocking injustices, making us stop and consider how many survive to this day

  Ann Patchett, author of Women's Prize longlisted The Dutch House

• An impressive and original debut

  THE SUNDAY TIMES

• A sweeping adventure of identity, love and belonging

  C Pam Zhang, Man Booker longlisted author of How Much of These Hills are Gold

• Brilliant and devastating. Four Treasures of the Sky tells the story of Daiyu, who is brought to America against her will and forced to hide who she is even as she grows into her true self. Weaving together myth and history, Zhang’s work is both timeless and utterly necessary right now.

  Anna North, author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed

• An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this past decade. The story lingers long after its final pages

  T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

• An astonishing novel propelled by private and public histories, rich with reflections on self-making, moral calling, great love, and profound injustice

  Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning

• This unforgettable novel dazzles. An exhilarating rush of character, history and storytelling

  Kali Fajardo-Anstine, US National Book Award finalist author of Sabrina & Corina

• Brings alive a heroine for the ages, an indomitable teenage girl whose relentless spirit and self-reinvention carries this story. Daiyu is sure to take her place in the canon of great Western heroines next to True Grit’s Mattie Ross

  Juliet Grames, author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

• This book is haunting, luscious and precise – it’s historical fiction as we most want and need it to be. Four Treasures of the Sky paints a neglected chapter in history with sharp and devastating brushstrokes

  Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House

• A lyrical and sweeping Bildungsroman, fierce and moving

  Publishers Weekly, starred review

• A book to sit alongside Yaa Gyasi’s Homecoming and Anna North’s Outlawed, this is a powerful tale of reclamation, spun with soul by a remarkable new talent

  Lauren Puckett, Shelf Awareness

• An engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates the shocking injustices suffered in the 1800s, and in doing so, makes us stop and consider how much of that cruelty and injustice survives to this day

  Ann Patchett

• A sweeping adventure of identity, love, and belonging

  C Pam Zhang, Man Booker longlisted author of 'How Much of These Hills are Gold'

• Brilliant and devastating. Weaving together myth and history, it is both timeless and utterly necessary right now

  Anna North, 'Outlawed'

• An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this decade. The story lingers long after its final pages

  T Kira Madden, acclaimed author of 'Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls'

• An exhilarating rush of character, history, and storytelling. This unforgettable novel dazzles

  Kali Fajardo-Anstine, National Book Award finalist author of 'Sabrina & Corina'