Shanghai Girls starts out in glamorous 1930s Shanghai. Wealthy twenty-something-year-old sisters, Pearl and May, enjoy the fast-paced hustle and bustle of a city dominated by foreigners... until their father gambles everything away, and the girls are forced into arranged marriages. Then Japanese bombs fall on their beloved city, and they flee through the countryside, where horrible things happen. They eventually arrive in San Francisco and must endure months on Ellis Island.
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Dreams of Joy details Pearl and May's daughter's (you'll have to read Shanghai Girls to understand why Joy belongs to both sisters) hasty journey to the People's Republic of China in 1957. Blinded by idealism, Joy throws herself into New China. She lives in a commune in the countryside during the Great Leap Forward... love, camaraderie, starvation, torture, murder... Pearl travels to China to rescue her daughter and spends months in Shanghai waiting and suffering...
That's all I'm giving you. If the story sounds even a little bit interesting, pick them up. I saw used copies of the first book at bn.com for $1.99.
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