An original, courageous novel, <i>FireWife</i> draws on the powerful Chinese myth of fire and water to explore how women's sexuality and fate are intertwined.<br><br>Nin, a photographer, embarks on a five-month journey to photograph women around the world. Her travel turns into a search for the truth about women: the women of fire and the women of water. Each of her subjects' lives echoes a stage in Nin's discovery of her true “fire self.” <i>FireWife</i> illuminates the gap between merely knowing and actually living one's true self. Poetic and intensely moving, <i>FireWife</i> is an exploration of contemporary Asian women unknowingly connected over time.