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Shanghai Girls

by: Lisa See (author)

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 AngelesMay and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated,... show more

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Publisher: Random House

Pages no: 406

Edition language: English

Category:

Novels, Literature, Cultural, Book Club, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Adult, Asian Literature, Asia, Womens Fiction, Chick Lit, Womens

Series: Shanghai Girls (#1)

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reading4fun rated it

10 years ago

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I would recommend this novel to anyone that wants to be entertained and enlightened at the same time. I would like to thank GoodReads for giving me the opportunity to enjoy Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, which in no way skewed my assessment of the book. I was completely taken aback at the amount of kno...

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An Un-Calibrated Centrifuge rated it

10 years ago

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I didn't really read this book. I got about 10 pages in before I started thinking about Lisa See. She's mostly white and she's 1/8 Chinese. I wanted to see if she ever discusses her white privilege and shocker there's nothing out there that I can find where she does. Just some things about how she...

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Sorry kids, no feet. rated it

10 years ago

http://NoFeet.booklikes.com Sorry kids, no feet. 4.0 Shanghai Girls

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I found myself so engrossed in this book that I actually had to lock myself in my bathroom and sit in an empty bathtub to finish it. How else do you think a mother with three small children gets any reading done? Was it worth the mental anguish my children will later have to work through in therapy?...

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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it

11 years ago

http://angelareisetter.booklikes.com Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story 3.0 Shanghai Girls

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This book grew on me. At 50 pages in, I was ready to put it down and forget it. But that's roughly where it actually got started. It delved deeper into May and Pearl's culture, their personalities, and their relationship as the book evolved and I liked them both better and better as I read. Ther...

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Great Imaginations rated it

12 years ago

http://GreatImaginationsKara.booklikes.com Great Imaginations 3.0 Shanghai Girls

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Just after finishing writing a review for another Asian fiction novel that I felt very ho hum about, I am reminded again of why Lisa See is one of the strongest writers in the genre out there. Shanghai Girls will not go down as one of my favorite Asian fiction novels by any means, but it is a very s...

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