TY - BOOK AU - See,Lisa TI - Shanghai girls: a novel SN - 9780739328255 PY - 2009/// CY - New York PB - Random House Large Print KW - Sisters KW - Fiction KW - Chinese KW - United States KW - Immigrants KW - Family secrets KW - Large type books KW - Domestic fiction N2 - In the mid 1930's two well-educated sisters from Shanghai go to Los Angeles to become brides of the "Gold Mountain men" when their family is on the verge of bankruptcy. When the get their they are detained, interrogated, and humiliated for months. When one of the sisters becomes pregnant they vow that no one will ever know ER -