Shanghai Girls

                                        Shanghai Girl's

                                                            by Lisa See

     Recently, I have just finished reading Shanghai Girls, a novel by Lisa See. This book, although unique, isn't the best book about Asian girls in the library, but it is worth the time to read. It's plot, wasn't according to what I wanted to read. Yet, Shanghai Girls has a lot of things that will entertain its readers. It could have been better, but I still recommend it.

     What is Shanghai Girls? Shanghai girls is a novel about two sisters who grew up in China. Pearl, the older sister is the main character. The story begins when Pearl and her sister, May, go out to model and work for money. They come home to learn from their father that he had amassed a lot of debt and wasted the money they saved. In addition, he arranged for them to marry two Chinese men from San Francisco. This novel explores the life of these girls from the time they escaped China in 1937 to twenty years later. Shanghai girls is all about the relationship between two sisters as they survive a life of disappointment and misunderstanding.
     Primary good from Shanghai Girls is not that of the plot, but of the attention it draws to discrimination against Asian Americans. Readers are bond to find the mistreatment of these people as they analyze the story. For example, it shows the attempts the U.S government made to discover reasons to deport Chinese citizens back to China during the Cold War. This novel brings attention to this rarely discussed topic. To learn more about Chinese immigration to the United States, please read my next post: Chinese Immigrants: The Hardships They Faced. It should be published in a few days.