Dreams Of Joy

Nineteen-year-old joy louie has run away from her home in 1950s america to start a new life in china. Idealistic and unafraid, she believes that chairman mao is on the side of the people , despite what her family keeps telling her. How can she trust them, when she has just learned that her parents have lied to her for her whole life, that her mother pearl is really her aunt and that her real father is a famous artist who has been living in china all these years?