teabytiffany: TEALit: Books and Afternoon Tea w/ Tiffany February Title: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See Meeting Date: February  24th at 12 noon. Description  In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business. Though both wave off authority and traditions, they couldn’t be more different. Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and living the carefree life … until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. read more. This book is beautifully written.  The details are uncanny and you could almost picture yourself there.  See what they see, hear what they hear.  The only thing missing is the smell of a world that is within the creases of pages and printing ink.  Can’t wait to start the next life.

teabytiffany:

TEALit: Books and Afternoon Tea w/ Tiffany

February Title: Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

Meeting Date: February  24th at 12 noon.


Description 

In 1937, Shanghai is the Paris of Asia, full of great wealth and glamour, home to millionaires and beggars, gangsters and gamblers, patriots and revolutionaries, artists and warlords. Twenty-one-year-old Pearl Chin and her younger sister May are having the time of their lives, thanks to the financial security and material comforts provided by their father’s prosperous rickshaw business. Though both wave off authority and traditions, they couldn’t be more different. Pearl is a Dragon sign, strong and stubborn, while May is a true Sheep, adorable and placid. Both are beautiful, modern, and living the carefree life … until the day their father tells them that he has gambled away their wealth, and that in order to repay his debts he must sell the girls as wives to suitors who have traveled from Los Angeles to find Chinese brides. read more.


This book is beautifully written.  The details are uncanny and you could almost picture yourself there.  See what they see, hear what they hear.  The only thing missing is the smell of a world that is within the creases of pages and printing ink.  Can’t wait to start the next life.