Dreams of Joy: A Novel
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Once again Lisa See takes readers to China in "Dreams of Joy" by Lisa See continues the story of sisters Pearl and May, and of Joy, the daughter they share. The story began in "Shanghai Girls". Told in alternating first-person narratives by Joy and Pearl, we first meet nineteen year old Joy, who recently discovered a huge secret about her past and decides to go to the People's Republic of China to find her birth father and to help Chairman Mao's Communist cause. Pearl is hot on her trail to China, returning to places once familiar now quite changed. The alternating points of view are an effective way to show how both idealistic, Joy, and cynical Pearl, adjust to their new environments. At first, Joys is quite enamored with the new Communist ideal of sharing and equality. Pearl, on the other hand, can easily see the cracks, fissures and hypocrisies in the new regime. Who knew, for example, that Mao frowned on the too-Western convention of women wearing bras?
As Mao's "Great Leap Forward" begins to bring famine and death, the novel includes descriptions of suffering as horrible as any zombie movie I've ever seen. These passages are shattering and difficult to read. Also, that returning Chinese scientists had to sign a confession admitting that the Chinese moon was larger than the American moon. For readers of Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy offers closure.
I absolutely loved this book. Ever since I was a teenager, God has used China to touch my life.
As Mao's "Great Leap Forward" begins to bring famine and death, the novel includes descriptions of suffering as horrible as any zombie movie I've ever seen. These passages are shattering and difficult to read. Also, that returning Chinese scientists had to sign a confession admitting that the Chinese moon was larger than the American moon. For readers of Shanghai Girls, Dreams of Joy offers closure.
I absolutely loved this book. Ever since I was a teenager, God has used China to touch my life.
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Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to reading this.
