New York: Bloomsbury, (2010.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel about Pearl Buck and a friendship she formed as a child, the daughter of missionaries, with the young daughter of a destitute Chinese family, a friendship which survived even when Pearl and her family were forced to flee China, and the years of the Mao regime, when Willows "imperialist ties" threatened her and her husband's career. 275 pp. ISBN: 978-1596916975.