OK. OK. Thank you for your messages. I get it. Everyone wants more Lisa See.
So today...I dove deep into the vault and found this interview—Shanghai Girl—from 2009. It is about the complex relationship between two sisters who live a privileged life in 1930s Shanghai—full of great wealth and glamour and called The Pearl of the Orient. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May beautiful, modern, and having the time of their lives because their father can afford it. He’s a very rich businessman… until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and to repay his debts he plans to sell the girls as Chinese brides to mail-order suitors from Los Angeles. As Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, Pearl and May set out on the journey that takes them across the Pacific to the foreign shores of America. In Los Angeles, they try to find love in their arranged marriages, to learn the American ways as they fight against discrimination and the stifling old ways and strict rules of Los Angeles’ Chinatown. Along the way there are terrible sacrifices, unimaginable choices and one devastating secret, but through it all the two sisters hold on to each other and never forget who they are – Shanghai girls.
It is such a good read.
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