Helpful Score: 1
I picked up this book because I read "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" several years ago. I wasn't disappointed. Although the stories are set in different time periods and locales, See meticulously researched both books and then breathed life into the characters.
The girls of the title are two sisters who flee their home city when it is attacked by the Japanese in 1937. In some ways they are swept along by fate, but they are ultimately survivors. Amid the historical background of World War II and the Cultural Revolution, the sisters struggle with their relationship as much as they struggle with external factors.
I felt that the ending was too abrupt, as if it needed a sequel, and now See has come out with one, that I'm eager to read.
The girls of the title are two sisters who flee their home city when it is attacked by the Japanese in 1937. In some ways they are swept along by fate, but they are ultimately survivors. Amid the historical background of World War II and the Cultural Revolution, the sisters struggle with their relationship as much as they struggle with external factors.
I felt that the ending was too abrupt, as if it needed a sequel, and now See has come out with one, that I'm eager to read.
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