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354 p Summary: Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, in 1957 Joy runs away from her home in the United States to Shanghai to find her birth father, the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime. Terrified for her daughter's safety, Pearl returns to China to take her home. Pearl faces almost insurmountable challenges as she follows Joy, hoping for reconciliation. Yet even as Joy's and Pearl's separate journeys converge, one of the most tragic episodes in China's history will threaten their lives