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susanneb01 's review for:
Dreams of Joy
by Lisa See
This is the sequel to Lisa See's "Shanghai Girls". Pearl follows May, her 20 year old daughter into "closed" China in the late fifties during Mao' s "Great Leap Forward" which resulted among other things in a terrible famine. I love the historic aspect of the book and learned a lot (not too significant as I didn't know too much about these years in China). The story line is interesting, too, and continues the complicated mother-daughter relationship and Chinese immigrant/emigrant subject. As I not only wanted to find out how the story ends, but rooted for the right ending in that love and family overcomes all obstacles, the book is kind of a page turner. Would highly recommend reading both books!