For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and
Peony in Love - a stunning new novel from Lisa See about two sisters who leave
Shanghai to find new lives in 1930s Los Angeles. 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.

A novel about two sisters, two cultures, and the struggle to find a new life in
America while bound to the old, Shanghai Girls is a fresh, fascinating adventure
from beloved and bestselling author Lisa See.

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