FREE: Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok (softcover book)

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Very Good cond--read once--great read.

When young Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to America, they speak no English and own nothing but debt. They arrive in New York hopeful for a better life, but find instead a squalid Brooklyn apt and backbreaking labor in a Chinatown sweatshop. Unable to accept this as her future, Kim decides to use her 'talent for school' to earn a place for herself and her mother in their adopted country. Disguising the most difficult truths of her meager existence, Kim embarks on a double life: an exceptional student by day, and a sweatshop worker by evening. In time, Kim learns to translate not just her language but herself, back and forth between 2 worlds, between hardship and triumph, heartbreak and love, and all that gets lost in translation.