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Original Title:	Girl in Translation
ISBN:	1594487561 (ISBN13: 9781594487569)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kimberly Chang, Aunt Paula, Uncle Bob, Matt Wu, Annette Avery, Curt
Setting:	Brooklyn, New York City, New York(United States)
Literary Awards:	ALA Alex Award (2011), Lincoln Award Nominee (2016), Suburban Mosaic Book of the Year (2011), Chinese Library Association Best Book (2010), John Gardner Book Award Nominee for Fiction (2011) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction and for Debut Author (2010)

Girl in Translation

Jean Kwok

Hardcover | Pages: 290 pages

Rating: 3.98 | 45393 Users | 5594 Reviews

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Title	:	Girl in Translation
Author	:	Jean Kwok
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 290 pages
Published	:	April 29th 2010 by Riverhead
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Young Adult. Contemporary. Cultural. China. Adult Fiction

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Introducing a fresh, exciting Chinese-American voice, an inspiring debut about an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures.

When 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.

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I should probably bring this book down to a 3 for how terrible the end is. And clearly the characterizations of everyone except our narrator are fairly unsubtle. But I was completely engrossed in the details of this story of growing up dreadfully poor in Brooklyn a generation ago, a Tree Grows in Brooklyn for the late 20th Century. Kwok's tale really grabs you, and if you have a hard time crediting some of the details, the deeper unease is with the undeniable fact that the world she portrays -

4.5. I read Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok at a time when I read little fiction. I found the book at one of my favorite places- the check out counter at the library- and grabbed it because of its vivid colored cover. In this debut novel, Kwok tells the story of Kimberly Chang and her mother, immigrants from Hong Kong to Brooklyn. Forced to live in a condemned apartment and work in horrid conditions because their sponsor, Kimberley's aunt, feels as though they are burden on society, Kimberly

4.5 stars I really liked this book, a lot. Hence how I was able to finish it in a single sitting. It was very interesting. The story revolves around an Chinese mother/daughter duo's immigration from Hong Kong to New York. The book focuses on the experiences of culture clash, isolation and all the other difficulties they go through to adapt to the strange new world they find themselves in. Perhaps I resonated with this so strongly because both of my parent's were immigrants, it was because of

Sometimes our fate is different from the one we imagined for ourselves. What a beautiful, bittersweet, and moving book. Girl in Translation is not an comforting story, but the various colorful characters and Kimberlys determination to succeed pulled me through.This novel is a harsh check to the charming American Dream stories. When Kimberly Chang and her mother immigrate to America, they dont find a better future, but an apartment filled with roaches and work at a sweat shop. Kwok never



This was such a delightful read that I put off all the other things I was supposed to be doing today and read it in one sitting:) It is Saturday after all and I think I deserved a treat!It is a wonderful tale of a Chinese mother and daughter who migrate to America and find it not to be the land of plenty they had dreamed of. I thought the author handled it perfectly in particular the way she presents the daughter's struggle with the English language. However smart she is, however hard she tries

I see I'm against the grain here, but I was not into this book AT ALL. I read it for my Kinshasa book club- if not for that I would have stopped halfway through. The story is the most average, unsurprising "coming of age" tale I have ever read. The fact that the girl grows up working in a sweat shop would have been shocking if I was as naive as the main character's best friend, Annette. And the love of her life made no sense. She kept calling him beautiful, talked about what a wonderful person