Shanghai girls / Lisa See.
Forced to leave Shanghai when their father sells them to California suitors, sisters May and Pearl struggle to adapt to life in 1930s Los Angeles while still bound to old customs, as they face discrimination and confront a life-altering secret.
May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl's parents arrange for their daughters to marry 'Gold Mountain men' who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island (the Ellis Island of the West) - where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months - they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she's pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.
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- ISBN: 9780812980530 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 322 pages ; 21 cm.
- Edition: Random House trade paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010.
- Copyright: ©2009
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Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Chinese > United States > Fiction. Immigrants > United States > Fiction. Family secrets > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. |
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