Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years. It's now time for Winnie to tell her daughter, Pearl, about her past, which is a journey from a small island outside of Shanghai in the 1920's, across a ravaged China during World War II and eventually to the United States. Her tale contains a secret that not even Helen knows.
year: 1991, 1992, 2006, 1993
call number/section: 1000
subjects: chinese american families, fiction, chinese americans, mothers and daughters, california, fiction, china, mother-daughter relationship, tan, amy, chinese-american literature, 20th century
Editions
Tan, Amy
Putnam (1991)
Schools: 7
Tan, Amy
Ivy (1992)
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years, but now that she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.
Schools: 7
Tan, Amy
Penguin (2006)
Lifelong friends, Winnie and Helen, have kept each other's secrets for more than fifty years. It's now time for Winnie to tell her daughter, Pearl, about her past, which is a journey from a small island outside of Shanghai in the 1920's, across a ravaged China during World War II and eventually to the United States. Her tale contains a secret that not even Helen knows.
Schools: 0
Tan, Amy
Vintage (1993)
Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything.
Schools: 2
Tan, Amy
Schools: 1
Tan, Amy
Schools: 0