Bonnie's thoughts ~ Shanghai Girls

I have started reading Shanghai Girls by Lisa See, our book for June.  Already I have discovered, after 59 pages, that "beautiful girls" means something different from what I first thought.  Beautiful girls were models who posed for artists making posters and calendars to advertise something like the cigarettes in the retro poster above.  The two girls on the cover of the book were advertising bug spray, according to an NPR story, and that's the poster than inspired Lisa See to write a story about the characters Pearl and May Chin.  The original shows dead insects falling around them, which gives me a very different "feel" for the picture!