"While everyone else was teaching, I went to an unoccupied corner and started going over material I had learned that day. For the first time, I felt as if I might have a chance to actually be good at something. Like Godmother said, nothingness was the beginning of the universe."Charlie Wong is a twe...
It’s been many years since I was twenty-two, and I’m not ABC (American-born Chinese), and I’ve never had to choke down a traditional medicine brewed from the intimate body parts of strange animals to please a parent, but Charlie Wong is the kind of character it’s easy to relate to. Clumsy, imperfect...
Basically a story about a mother and daughter who immigrate from Hong Kong to New York. The heroine Kim Chang takes us through her journey of overcoming extreme poverty to rising success. Kim's aunt Paula has helped them come to America but when they arrive she dumps them in a condemned apartment, a...
This was a really quick read--it reads more like YA than adult fiction. Beautiful writing isn't really its strong point, but it is definitely effective and doesn't distract from the story. And it is quite a good story about the immigrant experience. I liked a lot of the issues it touched on, from fa...
This is the semi-autobiographical story of a young Chinese girl who immigrates to New York with her mother to seek the American dream. It’s told in clear, straightforward prose with interesting observations, insights and flashes of humor. A memorable line: For years, I calculated whether or not some...
This is the semi-autobiographical story of a young Chinese girl who immigrates to New York with her mother to seek the American dream. It’s told in clear, straightforward prose with interesting observations, insights and flashes of humor. A memorable line: For years, I calculated whether or not some...
So I'm not really in a gushing mood and I'm going to keep this fairly short, but y'all should know how fantastic this book is. I rarely give out 5 star ratings, so that should be an indicator of how special I thought this book was. I see that many people I know have already read it, so you know what...
It was wonderful, EXTREMELY relate-able. I'm currently having issues there. Do all Chinese girls go through this? Because right now, I'm in a similar situation where I want to get out of. The author obviously gave a lot of thought to the ending of the book. It made me cry and depressed as hell.
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