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Excerpt from The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

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The Binding Chair

or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society

by Kathryn Harrison

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The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
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    Apr 2000, 312 pages

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    Jul 2001, 352 pages

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Crawl, back, breast, side: Alice tracked May's progress through the strokes, her own arms folded, her dark head dipped apprehensively.

Excerpted from The Binding Chair; or, A Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison Copyright© 2000 by Kathryn Harrison. Excerpted by permission of Random House, a division of Random House, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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