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Book Review of Shanghai Girls

Shanghai Girls
Shanghai Girls
Author: Lisa See
Book Type: Hardcover
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This is about the bonds of sisterhood and the psychological journey of becoming American.

This historical fiction is during 1937 when Japan bombed Shanghai.

These two Chinese sisters are married off by their father. They have to move to America where their husbands live.

And so the Chinese immigrants experience is seen in a moving story