This series immerses readers in the vibrant, tumultuous world of 1930s Shanghai, following two sisters whose lives are irrevocably altered. Forced from privilege into hardship, they embark on perilous journeys across continents and oceans, facing arranged marriages and the challenges of a new land. Their story is a poignant exploration of resilience, the search for love, and the enduring power of hope amidst discrimination and the dazzling allure of Hollywood.
In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, a city of great wealth and glamour, the home of millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father's prosperous rickshaw business, twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister, May, are having the time of their lives
A continuation of "Shanghai Girls" finds a devastated Joy fleeing to China to search for her real father while her mother, Pearl, desperately pursues her, a dual quest marked by their encounters with the nation's intolerant Communist culture