

The two embark on a friendship that will sustain both of them through one of the most tumultuous periods in Chinese history. Buck, but for now she is just a girl embarrassed by her blonde hair and enchanted by her new Chinese friend. She will ultimately become the internationally renowned author Pearl S. Willow is the only child of a destitute family, Pearl the headstrong daughter of zealous Christian missionaries.

In the small southern town of Chin-kiang, in the last days of the nineteenth century, two young girls bump heads and become thick as thieves.

From the bestselling author of Red Azalea and Empress Orchid comes the powerful story of the friendship of a lifetime, based on the life of Pearl S.
