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Girl in Translation

by Jean Kwok

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ISBN13: 9781594485152
ISBN10: 1594485151
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When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she 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 also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

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About the Author

Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn as a young girl. Jean received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in Fiction at Columbia. She worked as an English teacher and Dutch-English translator at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and now writes full-time. She has been published in Story Magazine and Prairie Schooner.
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Charlotte Glover, January 4, 2012 (view all comments by Charlotte Glover)
This coming of age in America story works equally well for teens and adults. It reminded me of "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" with its gritty realism and young Kimberly's striving for a better life through education. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was moved by it.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781594485152
Author:
Kwok, Jean
Publisher:
Riverhead Trade
Subject:
Literary
Subject:
Literature-A to Z
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Publication Date:
20110503
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Pages:
320
Dimensions:
8.05 x 5.26 x 0.86 in 0.53 lb
Age Level:
from 18
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