Description: From the author of the bestsellers "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" and "Peony in Love" comes a stunning novel about two sisters who leave Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles.
Review Quotes: "See is a gifted writer, and in Shanghai Girls she again explores the bonds of sisterhood while powerfully evoking the often nightmarish American immigrant experience."--USA Today
"A buoyant and lustrous paean to the bonds of sisterhood."--Booklist"A rich work . . . as compulsively readable as it is an enlightening journey."--Denver Post
"The glamour of prewar Shanghai is recalled in Lisa See's deftly plotted Shanghai Girls."--Vogue "Splendid."--More "An engrossing tale of two sisters."--Time "Shanghai Girls is one of those books I could not wait to continue reading, because her characters' stories are so compellingly told."--St. Louis Dispatch
"As in Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love, she has in her latest novel created ordinary women who, through willfulness and resiliency, accomplish extraordinary things. . . . See, whose writing is as graceful as these ''beautiful girls, '' pulls off another exceptional novel."--Miami Herald