from bookmagic

Pearl and May Chin are two modern girls in 1937 Shanghai, the Paris of Asia. Their father runs a successful rickshaw business and the two sisters pose as models for the Beautiful Girl campaign. But their father loses his money and to pay his debts, he marries Pearl and May off to two brothers, wh...

from DeltaQueen50

I approached Shanghai Girls by Lisa See with a certain amount of trepidation. I loved Snow Flower and the Secret Fan but disliked intensely her Peony In Love, I was very happy that Shanghai Girls fell more to the side of the first book for me. The story of two Chinese sisters who grew up in Shang...

from KC9333

Many novels have looked at immigration to America through Ellis Island but this novel explores the experience of those Asian immigrants who came through Angel Island. The author does a very good job of sharing this perspective through the eyes of two young girls. It is easy to lose oneself in the...

from Lman

In truth, I have very little knowledge of the times or events portrayed in the book Shanghai Girls, and as such this story is very nearly, to my mind, a dichotomy - at once an easy, almost effortless read of a harsh, even punishing, subject. For, in spite of this severity, the story flows smoothl...

from Suzieqkc

May and Pearl, young adult, single Chinesewomen are still living at home with their parents. It's the 1930s right before the Japanese invasion of China and the start of WWII in Asia and America. I don't want to write too much because I don't want to give ANY of this delicious story away. After re...