ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Now living in Amsterdam, Jean Kwok emmigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She won early admission to Harvard, where she worked as many as four jobs at a time, and graduated with honors in English and American literature, before going on to earn an MFA in fiction at Columbia. Girl in Translation is her debut novel  [From author's website.]

THE BOOK
This is Kwok's first novel, the story of  a Chinese immigrant in America, living a double life between school and sweatshop, who ocmes to understand that her family’s future is in her hands. Her heroine, Kimberly Chang learns to translated not just her language but herself. [For more information, visit http://jeankwok.com/index.shtml]