Shanghai Girls

Kathy Miller
Dec 19, 2023
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Updated: Aug 30, 2025

Lisa See, 2009

Date Read 12/19/23

This ends on a very obvious cliffhanger, and I see through looking up a photo for this post that there is a sequel I will probably read.

Novels that are poorly written have no emotional impact on the reader (besides boredom, maybe). I had literal dreams about this novel last night. A lot of them bad, unsurprisingly.

It is fantastic and also horrible and I highly recommend it. Although it is very sad. I say that about most of the good novels, don't I? I'm starting to think the way to write a "classic" is to rip out people's heart-guts.

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