3.5 stars. Realistic fiction. Kimberly Chang and her mother come to New York from Hong Kong dreaming of a new and improved life. They experience terrible living and working conditions while trying to keep their heads above water financially. Kimberly struggles for years as she tries to maintai...
Loved the character development, main character really reminded me of myself. Felt like at times it was a bit too predictable and a bit cliche, but for its genre it was well done!I absolutely adored the fluid integration of Chinese culture and superstitions, as well as the way Jean Kwok painted L...
I pulled the shawl more tightly around my shoulders. It was never very warm in our apartment. She’d printed out some practice questions for the test that she’d found on the Internet. We’d just looked at the reading passage together. I couldn’t seem to stop drumming my fingers on the tabletop. Now...