Like other Lisa See novels, this is a story as much about relationships between mothers and daughters as it is one about individuals and their homeland. See’s China is daunting, frightening and thrilling all at once– with the spectre of Mao’s Cultural Revolution looming terrifyingly close. Remember Shanghai Girls? Remember how you didn’t want to let go of Pearl and May? See brings them back in Dreams of Joy, and moves the story forward to the late 1950’s, as young Joy leaves her mother Pearl in Los Angeles, and heads to China to find her father.
From her thrilling family story, On Gold Mountain, to her new novel, Dreams of Joy, Lisa See has mined individual, familial and collective Chinese American stories to produce a most wonderful window into what it means to be part of both cultures as a woman in the 20th and 21st centuries. No one, however, has done it with as much variety, depth or reach to a wide audience. The Age of Dreaming is a masterpiece of the sort that doesn’t just seduce the readerit leaves you transformed. Only a handful of writers in America have explored the Chinese immigration experience as fully as Lisa See.
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