Shanghai girls (2009)

Pearl and May leave 1930s Shanghai for arranged marriages in Los Angeles, where family obligations and immigration restrictions reshape their closeness. See spends substantial time on the business of living after arrival: work, neighbourhood ties, status and what can safely be said. A strong choice for sisters whose new home does not make their memories agree. War, sexual violence and anti-Chinese persecution are serious; Dreams of Joy continues the story beyond this book's unsettled ending.