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Title	:	Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2)
Author	:	Lisa See
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 354 pages
Published	:	May 31st 2011 by Random House (first published 2011)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. Cultural. China. Asia. Literature. Asian Literature. Audiobook

Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2)

Lisa See

Hardcover | Pages: 354 pages

Rating: 4.08 | 55926 Users | 4779 Reviews

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In her most powerful novel yet, acclaimed author Lisa See returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed nineteen-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father—the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the Communist regime. Devastated by Joy’s flight and terrified for her safety, Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost. From the crowded city to remote villages, Pearl confronts old demons and almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy’s and Pearl’s separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China’s history threatens their very lives.

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Original Title:	Dreams of Joy
ISBN:	140006712X (ISBN13: 9781400067121)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Shanghai Girls #2
Literary Awards:	Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Historical Fiction (2011)

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Beautiful, beautiful book...and a bit horrifying as well. I was unaware when I started this book that it was part of a well-known series involving Pearl and Mae, two of the story's main characters. Joy is the 19 year old daughter of Chinese nationals who relocated to California at the start of China's "Cultural Revolution". The book opens with the death of Joy's father and a startling family skeleton revealed. Deeply shaken, Joy leaves the US to pursue her idea of China. Believing, as only a

In Shanghai Girls you read about the Japanese Invasion of China, and follow Pearl and her sister May as they try to escape China after their family unravels. In order to get to America, they must go through some horrific ordeals. "Dreams of Joy" is the continuation of this book. In this book, Pearl and her daughter, Joy are the narrators. Here, you read more about the Chinese "Great Leap Forward." While not as plot-driven and laced with conflict as Shanghai Girls was, this book is a fictional

This was a phenomenal follow-up to Shanghai Girls. The themes leaped out at me -- mother-daughter, sister-sister, and overall family relationships tie this whole story together in the deepest of ways, and more than once I teared up while listening; I recently made a pretty big mistake that hurt my parents and my sister, and this turned into such a perfect read when I was searching for a way to mend things, as I listened to Joy and Pearl come back together.While Shanghai Girls saw Pearl and May

If you want to read/understand about China without it being 'helped' (all pun intended towards "The Help") along by strange, stilted "orientalist" notions of how it used to be in the old times, this would NOT be the book/series to read.As an articulate asian (from Singapore), it pains me to read such trash passing off as historic fiction/filtered through what are very much western eyes (doesn't matter if the writer knows Amy Tan or has See as a surname) and targeted to what are clearly western

Lisa See is an amazing literary voice. I have read all her work and she never disappoints. Her lyrical prose transports me. I have never been so vividly transported to China before reading her most recent work, "Dreams of Joy". Dreams of Joy tells the story of Joy, a Chinese-American at the the time of the inception of Mao's Great Leap Forward. A heartbreaking tragedy and a family secret come to light sends Joy on a journey to China to find herself and her biological father. Joy is idealistic

Dreams of Joy is Lisa Sees sequel to Shanghai Girls, but that isnt really what it is...it is really the completion of what was, for me, an incomplete story. It would be like having Gone With the Wind end when Scarlett gets back to Tara after the burning of Atlanta...you would feel cheated, because you would know there were a lot of important pieces of this story that you didnt yet know. It just couldnt have ended there. Everything truly important happens in GWTW after that point, your

I began reading this book for two reasons. 1.) Because it fit the requirements of a challenge Im in. 2.) Because it was there and I had enjoyed Shanghai Girls well enough. That said, I knew that this book revolved about Pearl and Joy and I just didnt love either of them in the first book and because of this, I wasnt in any rush to start this one. Now that I have finished it, I would give this book 10 stars if I could. It starts where Shanghai Girls ends. Joy has run away to Shanghai to find her