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This book is set in Gion, Japan of the 1930s to 1940s. Chiyo, a young girl lives in a tipsy house of Japan. When her mom gets ill and her dad gets older, Chiyo is forced to move to an okiya in Gion of for proper training to become a geisha. Everything is a little bit unpleasant especially a geisha who lives in the okiya with her, Hatsumomo. Hatsumomo always orders Chiyo around, calls her “Little Miss Stupid”, and makes fun of her. She lives with maids, Auntie, Mother, and Grandma in the okiya. Although, Grandma was killed by a shock from an electric heater a couple years after she moved in. She meets someone called the Chairman while running errands for Mother. She thinks he is nice man. Anyways, she is granted an extremely great deal from a famous geisha, Mameha, it is to become her younger sister! You see, Mameha is going to become an older sister of Chiyo to train her to become a proper geisha like herself. Chiyo learns many new things with Mameha. Finally, after years of training, Chiyo became a geisha. When she became a geisha, she changed her name to Sayuri. At a teahouse where geisha entertain, Sayuri meets a man named Nobu. Nobu wants to become Sayuri’s danna, or husband. Also, she once again meets the Chairman. Mameha has a clever plan for Hatsumomo to become jealous that Sayuri will be adopted as the okiya’s daughter by Mother. The plan also involves someone named Dr. Crab, Nobu, and not Chairman so, Sayuri is upset. Sayuri has a great interest in the Chairnam. Mameha informs Sayuri to learn dancing because all great geishas are famous dancers. She learns it and gets a roll into a dance performance that occurs every year in Gion. Nobu once again asks to be Sayuri’s danna but, Sayuri turns him down and finds another danna, a general in the military. A bomb hits in Japan and kills many people. Even Mameha’s maids were killed by this deadly poison in the air. What will become of Sayuri? Will she find a place to hide?

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