Lisa See - Shanghai Girls - Reading and Signing February 8, 2010

For readers of the phenomenal bestsellers Snow Flower and the Secret Fan and Peony in Love. May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months. And when May discovers she's pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know.