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Author:

Kwok, Jean.

Title:

Girl in translation / Jean Kwok.

Publisher:

Riverhead Books,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

293 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Chinese--New York--New York--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.
Coming of age--Fiction.
Chinese.
Chinese American teenagers.
Mothers and daughters.
Women immigrants.
New York (State)--New York.
Chinese--Fiction.
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Chinese Americans--Fiction.
Teenagers--Fiction.
Mother-daughter relationship--Fiction.
New York, N.Y.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Miscellaneous fiction.

Summary:

Caught between the pressure to succeed in America, her duty to their family, and her own personal desires, Kimberly Chang, an immigrant girl from Hong Kong, learns to constantly translate not just her language but herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.

ISBN:

9781594485152
1594485151
1594487561
9781594487569

OCLC:

(OCoLC)449284776

LCCN:

2009041041

Locations:

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston) — F KWOK — Copies: 16

DAPG173 -- Mason City Public Library (Mason City) — Copies: 10