**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. A sweeping novel set in war-torn 1928 China, with a star-crossed love story at its center. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land.