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Jan 13, 2015
***** Charlie, the older daughter of an old-school overworked and underpaid widowed Chinese man, comes of age at great risk to the thin fabric that holds her struggling family together -- only to resew it with tensile-strength thread. By itself, the description of her interview at the dance studio is worth the time to read the whole book -- but that's only one one gem in a sparkling charm bracelet of a novel. Also, check out Kwok's emotion-tugging debut novel, Girl in Translation, about impoverished Chinese immigrants who become indentured servants to family members as the price of their tickets.