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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Kwok, Jean.     Subjects     Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Chinese American teenagers -- Fiction.     Culture conflict -- Fiction.     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kwok, Jean.       by title:      Girl in translation ...       by call number:      FICTION KWO     Search the Web     Kwok, Jean.     Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.     Women immigrants -- Fiction.     Chinese American teenagers -- Fiction.     Culture conflict -- Fiction.     Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.       MARC Display

Girl in translation / Jean Kwok. by Kwok, Jean. Riverhead Books, c2010. Call #: FICTION KWO Subjects Chinese -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction.   Women immigrants -- Fiction.   Chinese American teenagers -- Fiction.   Culture conflict -- Fiction.   Mothers and daughters -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781594485152 (pbk.) 9781594487569 Description:  293 p. ; 24 cm. Summary:  "When eleven-year-old Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life-like the staggering degree of her poverty, the weight of her family's future resting on her shoulders, or her secret love for a factory boy who shares none of her talent or ambition-Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles. Through Kimberly's story, author Jean Kwok, who also emigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, brings to the page the lives of countless immigrants who are caught between the pressure to succeed in America, their duty to their family, and their own personal desires, exposing a world that we rarely hear about. Written in an indelible voice that dramatizes the tensions of an immigrant girl growing up between two cultures, surrounded by a language and world only half understood, Girl in Translation is an unforgettable and classic novel of an American immigrant-a moving tale of hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation. "--p. [2] of cover. Genre:  First novel. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status Due Date   Central Library Adult Fiction FICTION KWO Adult books Checked out Jul 20, 2024 Add Copy to MyList

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