Pearl and May Chin are Beautiful Girls. They model for advertising and portraits of these sisters appear all over Shanghai. The daughters of a wealthy rickshaw company owner, Shanghai is all theirs—their friends are wealthy foreigners and the Shanghai elite, they are fashionable and smart. They have it all. That is, until their father loses everything to a gambling debt and sells both sisters into marriage. At least they marry brothers, so they will always be together.
This is the gripping story of the sisters’ exodus from China, into their husbands’ family home in Los Angeles. Their story begins in 1937, just before the Japanese invade China. The escape reads like an adventure story and a family saga rolled into one beautifully written package. See did a great job of making you feel like you’re there, running for your life with them.
I read (listened) to this book for the China Challenge over at Biblio File. This book is great on audio! Janet Song is a wonderful narrator. The sisters were so alive to me that I found myself wanting to know more about their lives after the book ended. Great listen!
This is the gripping story of the sisters’ exodus from China, into their husbands’ family home in Los Angeles. Their story begins in 1937, just before the Japanese invade China. The escape reads like an adventure story and a family saga rolled into one beautifully written package. See did a great job of making you feel like you’re there, running for your life with them.
I read (listened) to this book for the China Challenge over at Biblio File. This book is great on audio! Janet Song is a wonderful narrator. The sisters were so alive to me that I found myself wanting to know more about their lives after the book ended. Great listen!
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