Dreams of Joy: A Novel
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781299069909 (1299069908)
Publish date: January 1st 2011
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Cultural,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
China
Series: Shanghai Girls (#2)
This sequel to Shanghai Girls starts in 1950s Los Angeles. University student Joy (Pearl's adopted daughter) has become enamored with Communism. In the wake of her adopted father's suicide, she decides to go to China and find her real father, artist Z.G. Li, and join in the cultural revolution herse...
I wavered in my rating. I originally gave it four stars because I felt it was a high 3.5 half stars but after digesting the book, I feel it's really more a three star read. I found [b:Shanghai Girls|5960325|Shanghai Girls (Shanghai Girls #1)|Lisa See|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327968416s/5960325...
Written in the first person by a mother and daughter, this tells of family strife and what you would do for those you love.Joy is the daughter of Chinese immigrants to the US, although at the opening of the book she's discovered that she is, in fact, the biological daughter of her aunt. She's also 1...
I know I am bucking the trend here, but while I enjoyed "Shanghai Girls" enormously and hoped for a sequel, this book truly disappointed me. I gave it three stars because the author does put pen to paper very well, and the book moves along, however slowly, to a conclusion the reader eagerly looks fo...
This is the sequel to Shanghai Girls. I need to find this one so I can see how it all ends, since the first one's ending left me wondering.I liked this one even more than Shanghai Girls. This one picks up where the last one left off, with Joy learning her family truths by overhearing an argument bet...
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