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Jean Kwok writes about the Asian American emigration experience. Her website describes the plot of Girl In Translation thus: “When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings.” For more, see Jeankwok.net.

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