ISBN: 1408810522 9781408810521

Category: Fiction / General

Page count: 304

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, two young girls from very <br>different worlds collide and become inseparable companions. Willow is <br>hardened by poverty and fearful for her future; Pearl is the daughter of<br> a Christian missionary who desperately wishes she was Chinese too. <br>Neither could have foreseen the transformation of the little American <br>girl embarrassed by her blonde hair into the Nobel Prize-winning writer <br>and one of China's modern heroines, Pearl S. Buck. <br><br>When the <br>country erupts in civil war between the Nationalists and the Communists,<br> Pearl and Willow are brutally reminded of their differences. Pearl's <br>family is forced to flee the country and Willow is punished for her <br>loyalty to her 'cultural imperialist' friend. And yet, in the face of <br>everything that threatens to tear them apart, the paths of these two <br>women remain intimately entwined.