The first book in her Red Princess mysteries is titled Flower Net and follows the story of Liu Hulan and David Stark. Her knowledge about her family and heritage inspires her to write passionate books that tend to heavily reflect women´s perspectives.Īfter her first book Lisa See decided to go a completely different direction and began to write a series of mysteries. Lisa See´s first book focuses on how her great grandfather becomes a powerful man and the effect that his actions had on the women in his life. so they had a lawyer create a contract between the two instead of having an actual marriage certificate. Their bi-racial marriage was not yet legal in the U.S. At that time work for women was limited and no one would hire her except Lisa See´s grandfather. Meantime Lisa´s great grandmother, a young Caucasian woman, was looking for a job in San Francisco. Lisa See´s great grandfather was able to build his first business making crotchless underwear. Eventually some people gave his fourteen year old son enough money to travel to the U.S. He never sent money home leaving his wife and children penniless. to work on the transcontinental railroad, unfortunately he decided to forget about the family he had left back in China. Her great great grandfather for example moved from China to the U.S. When she speaks about her family she speaks with an air of unbiased honesty and tenderness but also with humor. These struggles were not only caused by racism and the Chinese Exclusion Act but also by members within her family. This book tells the story of her family´s struggles. She began her career with the book On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family. Lisa See spent most of her young life living in China Town surrounded by traditional Chinese culture. That single moment is the reason why Lisa See began writing about the Chinese American experience.Īuthors are always told to write what they know and Lisa See knows a lot about Chinese history and traditions. She describes the moment she realized she could write as a light bulb suddenly going off. Lisa had always been adamant about never becoming a writer but during her stay in Greece she realized it was exactly what she wanted to do. During her travels she realized that she had to find a way to support herself so that she could continue traveling. As a young woman Lisa See knew she wanted to travel so she decided to take two years off from college and do just that. Lisa See was born on February 18th, 1955 in Paris but spent most of her youth in Los Angeles. These are the kinds of stories that author Lisa See writes. It takes a certain devotion to weave words into stories that speak to the human heart.

Dragon Bones by Lisa See