Jean Kwok - Girl in Translation
Jean Kwok - Girl in Translation
Publisher: Riverhead Trade | ISBN: 1594485151 | May 3, 2011 | EPUB/MOBI | 320 pages | 369 KB/577 KB
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.