Lisa See | Shanghai Girls
Recorded May 26, 2009
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20090526-lisasee.mp3
Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Her new novel, Shanghai Girls, is a suspenseful, provocative, and elegantly told tale of two sisters’ journey from lush and glamorous Shanghai to Los Angeles in the 1930s, where they strive to embrace American life, fight discrimination, and brave Communist witch hunts.
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