After Joy, her strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, flees to Shanghai in search of her birth father and in the process throws herself into the New Society of Red China, Pearl follows her in hopes of reconciliation. As their journeys converge, one of China's most tragic episodes of history threatens their safety and lives.
year: 2011, 2012
call number/section: 1000
subjects: family, china, fiction, historical fiction, china, history, 20th century, fiction, family life
Editions
See, Lisa
Random House (2011)
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture.
Schools: 9
See, Lisa
Random House (2012)
After Joy, her strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, flees to Shanghai in search of her birth father and in the process throws herself into the New Society of Red China, Pearl follows her in hopes of reconciliation. As their journeys converge, one of China's most tragic episodes of history threatens their safety and lives.
Schools: 1