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* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION *'Kwok is an impressive talent' - KARIN SLAUGHTER'A hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery' - LUCY FOLEY'I will find my daughter. No matter the cost...'Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. ...

Recommended by The New York Times - Elle - Good Morning America - TIME - People - New York Post - Real Simple - Goodreads - LibraryReads - and many more! An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women--from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation. "Intriguing. . . Kwok is a skilled writer of suspenseful family drama. . . . We...

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At once a hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery and a compelling exploration of motherhood and belonging that packs a profound emotional punch. I couldn't stop thinking about this book." -- Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris ApartmentAn evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women--from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Syl...

* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION * 'Kwok is an impressive talent' - KARIN SLAUGHTER'A beautiful, propulsive story' - LAURA DAVE'I will find my daughter. No matter the cost...'Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her ru...

* FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF GIRL IN TRANSLATION * 'Kwok is an impressive talent' - KARIN SLAUGHTER'A beautiful, propulsive story' - LAURA DAVE'I will find my daughter. No matter the cost...'Jasmine Yang thought her daughter was dead at birth. But five years after she was taken from her arms, she learns that her controlling husband sent the baby to America to be adopted, a casualty of China's one-child-policy. Fleeing her ru...

At once a hugely atmospheric and suspenseful mystery and a compelling exploration of motherhood and belonging that packs a profound emotional punch. I couldn't stop thinking about this book." ? Lucy Foley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Paris ApartmentAn evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women?from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvi...

An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women in New York City?from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation.

An instant New York Times bestseller, this is a poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge.

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women in one Chinese immigrant family

Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the WaterIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes.Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her ...

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It begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands to visit her dying grandmother—and then vanishes.Amy Lee is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep her sister. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a foreign relative and didn’t rejoin her family in America until she was nine. Amy has always looked up to her fierc...

A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women—two sisters and their mother—in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge, from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in TranslationIt begins with a mystery. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands ...

De elfjarige Kimberly Chang en haar moeder verhuizen van Hongkong naar New York. Daar wonen ze noodgedwongen in een morsig, onverwarmd appartement in Brooklyn. Op school is Kim een buitenstaander doordat ze nauwelijks Engels spreekt. Na schooltijd moet ze haar moeder helpen bij haar werk in een sweatshop, waar ze spijkerbroeken maakt. Zwaar en stoffig werk, maar ze ontmoet er ook de knappe Matt. Ondanks alle tegenslagen blijkt Kim een getale...

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Die 22-jährige Charlie Wong lebt mit ihrem Vater und ihrer Schwester Lisa in New Yorks Chinatown. Ihr Job als Tellerwäscherin ist keine große Erfüllung - doch in der kleinen Welt der traditionellen chinesischen Einwanderer sind die Möglichkeiten begrenzt. Bis Lisa Charlie überredet, sich auf eine Annonce in der Zeitung zu melden: Das berühmteste New Yorker Tanzstudio sucht eine neue Rezeptionistin. Schnell wird klar: Die tollpatschige Charlie ...

From the bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation, an inspiring novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape 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 (American-born Chinese), Charlie's entire life has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she ...

Kimberly Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are deep in debt. And neither speaks one word of English. Jean Kwok's powerful and moving tale of hardship and triumph, of heartbreak and love, speaks of all that gets lost in translation.

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