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Mambo In Chinatown: Signed Hardcover - 2014
by Kwok, Jean
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
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Details
- Title Mambo In Chinatown: Signed
- Author Kwok, Jean
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1ST
- Condition New
- Pages 373
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Riverhead Books, New York, Ny
- Date 2014
- Bookseller's Inventory # 015033
- 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
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 worksmiserablyas 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 transformedsomething 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 worldsEastern and Western, old world and newto rescue her sister while also keeping her newfound confidence and identity.