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I thought I was modern. I thought I had choice.
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two beautiful, modern, carefree sisters - until their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth. In order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs falls on their beloved city, they must travel across Southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and across the ocean to a new, married life in Los Angeles' Chinatown.
A sweeping tale of terrifying sacrifices, impossible choices and one, devastating, life-changing secret, this is a heartbreaking novel of two sisters who must hold fast to who they are : Shanghai girls.
Shanghai, 1937. Pearl and May are two beautiful, modern, carefree sisters - until their father tells them that he has gambled away the family's wealth. In order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to two 'Gold Mountain' men: Americans. As Japanese bombs falls on their beloved city, they must travel across Southern China, in and out of the clutches of brutal soldiers, and across the ocean to a new, married life in Los Angeles' Chinatown.
A sweeping tale of terrifying sacrifices, impossible choices and one, devastating, life-changing secret, this is a heartbreaking novel of two sisters who must hold fast to who they are : Shanghai girls.