Lisa See's Official Website http://www.lisasee.com Just another WordPress site Sat, 18 May 2013 23:36:22 +0000 en-US hourly 1 First Review for Dreams of Joy! http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/10/first-review-for-dreams-of-joy/ http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/10/first-review-for-dreams-of-joy/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:56:14 +0000 admin http://www.lisasee.com/?p=538 Publishers Weekly
See revisits Shanghai Girls sisters Pearl and May in this surefire story of life in Communist China. Joy, the daughter Pearl has raised as her own in L.A., learns the truth about her parentage and flees to China to seek out her father and throw herself into the Communist cause, giving See ample opportunity to explore the People’s Republic from an unlikely perspective as Joy reconnects with her artist father, Z.G. Li, and the two leave sophisticated Shanghai to go to the countryside, where Z.G., whose ironic view of politics is lost on naïve Joy, has been sent to teach art to the peasants. Joy, full of political vigor, is slow to pick up on the harsh realities of communal life in late 1950s China, but the truth sinks in as Mao’s drive to turn China into a major agriculture and manufacturing power backfires. Pearl, meanwhile, leaves L.A. on a perhaps perilous quest to find Joy. As always, See creates an immersive atmosphere–her rural China is far from postcard pretty–but Joy’s education is a stellar example of finding new life in a familiar setup, and See’s many readers will be pleased to see the continued development of Pearl and May’s relationship. Looks like another hit. (May)

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]]> http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/10/dreams-of-joy-debuts-at-number-1/feed/ 0 Dreams of Joy TIME Magazine’s Pick for the Summer http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/05/dreams-of-joy-time-magazines-pick-for-the-summer/ http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/05/dreams-of-joy-time-magazines-pick-for-the-summer/#comments Sun, 05 Jun 2011 21:49:33 +0000 admin http://www.lisasee.com/?p=527 Lisa See’s Dreams of Joy was chosen for TIME’s best of the summer:

See’s 2009 novel, Shanghai Girls, introduced us to Pearl and May, sisters who traveled from the turbulent China of the 1930s to the strange and scarcely less turbulent city of Los Angeles. This sequel adds to the mix Pearl’s 19-year-old daughter Joy, who makes the trip the other way — back to communist China in search of her father. 5/31

]]> http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/06/05/dreams-of-joy-time-magazines-pick-for-the-summer/feed/ 0 On Gold Mountain http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/04/14/on-gold-mountain-2/ http://www.lisasee.com/blog/2011/04/14/on-gold-mountain-2/#comments Thu, 14 Apr 2011 17:21:42 +0000 admin http://www.lisasee.com/?p=496 When she was a girl, Lisa See spent summers in the cool, dark recesses of her family’s antiques store in Los Angeles Chinatown. There, her grandmother and great-aunt told her intriguing, colorful stories about their family’s past- stories of missionaries, concubines, tong wars, glamorous nightclubs, and the determined struggle to triumph over racist laws and discrimination.  [<a href="http://www.lisasee.com/ongoldmountain">READ MORE</a>]

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