Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok is the fictional story of Kimberly Chang and her mother who emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor. She begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings. Disguising the more difficult truths of her life, Kimberly learns to constantly translate not just her language but also herself back and forth between the worlds she straddles.
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