The American Woman in the Chinese HatBy: Carole Maso An intense, incantatory, erotic novel . . . An exquisitely calibrated evocation of longing and lust.Vogue Abandoned by her lover of ten years and devastated by the painful death of her brother, an American writer named Catherine comes to live and heal her wounds in the lush, crisp, light dappled French Riviera. But the sensual magic of summertime only underscores Catherines longing, as she falls deeper and deeper into an irretrievable