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Lisa See on How Memories Inspired Her to Write Shanghai Girls

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In this clip from her Oct. 22 Literary Luncheon, Lisa See discusses how her most recent novel relates to her childhood memories of her family’s gift shop in L.A.‘s China City. During a recent visit to the shop’s new location in Pasadena, she discovered that many of the objects she remembered were gone—and that many of the people who remembered China City were in their 80s and 90s.

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