Thursday, May 26, 2011

Nikki- Lisa See other books that she has written and summaries.

Lisa See has written a few other books beside the Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. Some of those other books that she has written includes, Dreams of Joy, On Gold Mountain Bones, The Interior, and her newest book, Shanghai Girls. In Dreams of Joy, the author talks about the sisters, Pearl and May, along with May's daughter Joy, from Shanghai Girls. Joy discovers shocking family secrets that her mother and her aunt were from her, and desides to run away to fo find her birth father. Joy mother's Pearl wants to save her daughter and get her back, and in doing that she faces a lot of her old demons. The story continues with the seperate journies of Pearl and Joy. In Shanghai Girls the main setting takes place in Shanghai, which is a place of great of wealth , but also is home to many homeless people. Pearl and her sister May are living a great life, until they later find out that their father has spent all their wealth on gambling. The story continues with their struggle to survive. On Gold Mountain is about Lisa See's memoir of the chinese american family. Lisa spent her summers in Los Angles Chinatown where her grandma and aunt would tell her past-stories all about the tong wars and their struggle to triumph over racist laws. The stories continues with the stories she was told as a kid. In Dragon Bones the main charcters Liu Hulan (an agent for China's Public security), and her husband David, who is an attorney, return to investigate a murder and theft at the Three Gorges Dam. You can find more summaries of Lisa See's books at http://www.lisasee.com/mysteries/dragon-bones/.

 

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