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Kwok, Jean.

Girl in translation / Jean Kwok - First Riverhead trade paperback edition - 307 pages ; 20 cm

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 (pbk.) 1594485151 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Chinese fiction--New York (State)--New York
Women immigrants--Fiction.
Chinese American teenagers--Fiction
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PS3611.W65 / G57 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6