Mambo in Chinatown : A Novel Hardcover - 2014
by Kwok, Jean
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Mambo in Chinatown : A Novel
- Author Kwok, Jean
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 373
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, N Y
- Date 2014-06-24
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4252383-6
- ISBN 9781594632006 / 1594632006
- Weight 1.34 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.26 x 6.38 x 1.23 in (23.52 x 16.21 x 3.12 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Family life
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2013043639
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
From the bestselling author of Girl in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties and her secret escapes into a more Western world.
Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same, tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher.
But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Slowly, within this new arenashy, clumsy, unfashionable Charlie’s own natural talents begin to emerge, and gradually her perspective, her expectations, and her sense of self all are transformed—something she must hide, at great pains, from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to find a way to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her sister while also keeping her newfound confidence and identity.
