Lisa See | Shanghai Girls
Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Lisa See is the New York Times bestselling author of Peony in Love, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Flower Net (an Edgar Award nominee), The Interior, and Dragon Bones, as well as the critically acclaimed memoir On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Her new novel, Shanghai Girls, is a suspenseful, provocative, and elegantly told tale of two sisters’ journey from lush and glamorous Shanghai to Los Angeles in the 1930s, where they strive to embrace American life, fight discrimination, and brave Communist witch hunts.
Parkway Central Library
1901 Vine Street (between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-567-4341