| Description |
296 pages ; 1.80 x 12.90 cm |
| Summary |
Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them #x13; making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are deep in debt. And neither speaks one word of English.Yet there is hope. Eleven-year-old Kim goes to school. And though cut off by an alien language and culture #x13; and forced by poverty to work nights in a sweatshop #x13; she finds the classroom challenges liberating. In books and learning she#x19;ll be saved. But can Kim successfully turn the lost girl from Hong Kong into a happy American woman? And should she?Jean Kwok#x19;s powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation |
| Genre/Form |
Reading nook.
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| ISBN |
9780141042749 paperback |
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0141042745 paperback |
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