Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama is about two Chinese sisters growing up in Hong Kong during WWII. During the Japanese occupation they move to Macao, then return to Hong Kong after the war. Emma continually dreams of traveling to far away places, while beautiful Joan expects to get married and enter into high society. While things don't work out exactly as planned, they always have their family to return to.
Tsukiyama is one of my favorite writes, I loved The Samurai's Garden, Women of the Silk, and others. While I enjoyed this novel, I didn't feel it is one of her best. Big periods of the girls lives were left out and not enough detail was given to fill in their stories. Other characters were hardly described at all. Sometimes it felt more like an outline of a book than a novel. A good story, but not full of the usual richness of Tsukiyama's novels that I have come to expect.
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