Pearl of China [text (large print)]

Description:

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.

subjects: Fiction, biographical,  Authors, fiction,  Friendship, fiction,  China, fiction,  Fiction,  Americans,  Female friendship,  Friendship in children,  Women novelists,  History,  Asian Americans,  Fiction, historical, general

People: Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Places: China

Times: 20th century