01581cam a2200313 4500 64080176 TxAuBib 20100614120000.0 081120s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781400067114 1400067111 (OCoLC)276228926 TxAuBib See, Lisa. Shanghai girls : a May and Pearl novel, book 1 / Lisa See. 1st ed. New York : Random House, 2009. 314 p. ; 25 cm. May and Pearl ; 1 May and Pearl, two sisters living in Shanghai in the mid-1930s, are beautiful, sophisticated, and well-educated, but their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. Hoping to improve their social standing, May and Pearl's parents arrange for their daughters to marry Gold Mountain men who have come from Los Angeles to find brides. But when the sisters leave China and arrive at Angel's Island (the Ellis Island of the West) where they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months they feel the harsh reality of leaving home. And when May discovers she is pregnant the situation becomes even more desperate. The sisters make a pact that no one can ever know. 20150126. Sisters Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Chinese United States Fiction. Immigrants United States Fiction. Historical fiction. May and Pearl ; 1. TXDRI