Shanghai Girls by Lisa See

I hope I would have done everything differently except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate. But if some things are fated and some people are luckier than others, then I also have to believe that I still haven't found my destiny.

Have just finished reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See. It's a very great story about the bond of sisterhood. No matter how bad you fight with your sister, the bond can never be broken. And when your sister is your only family that's left, you will depend on each other to survive.

From the last paragraph that I quoted above, it's true that no one can run from fate. Fate has been destined to us by birth; no matter how we're trying to fight it or try to do everything differently, it will alway be the same. It doesn't mean that we need to just wait for what will eventually happen to us. If for instance that we are worried that something bad is happening to us, we can't just let it happen; do something and strive, because we'll never know what's ahead.

Like in this book, Pearl and May were used living in wealth. They thought that their lives will be that easy onwards, until they found out that their father gambled their wealth; they lost everything and suddenly the Japanese invaded Shanghai. There was a war, and anything could happen in a war. It had been a huge turn up to them. They'd been forced into marriages, and lost their Mama and Baba along the way. Lastly they ended up in California.

Won't be telling the story in detail. You have to grab the book right away. It's a historical fiction book that you won't want to miss. I never liked history, but this book taught me a little history about Shanghai. How Japanese invaded Shanghai and what the people had done to survive. I was also informed about the Angel Island in San Francisco, where the Chinese people's fates were determined; either they'd been deported back or stayed in US. And about the opening of Chinatown in LA. It's interesting to learn a lil history in a fiction book.

I had also read Lisa See's Snow Flower and the Secret Fan. That's how I started to love Lisa See's writing. Got the other of her books for bargain in the Big Bad Wolf Booksale last month, so I have lots of books piling up, waiting to be read.