Pearl of China
by Anchee Min
Popularity 5
In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, young Willow and young Pearl S. Buck, the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries, bump heads and embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history.
Fiction, biographicalAuthors, fictionFriendship, fictionChina, fictionFictionAmericansFemale friendshipFriendship in childrenWomen novelistsHistoryAsian AmericansFiction, historical, general