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Winnie and Helen have guarded each other's hidden lives for decades. Facing her own mortality, Helen pushes for disclosure, while Winnie resolves to tell Pearl what she herself learned. In doing so, she unspools the story of her upbringing on a quiet island outside Shanghai in the 1920s, the trials of World War II China, and the events that ultimately brought her to America in 1949.
First publish date: August 1996
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Amy Tan
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