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Mambo in Chinatown: A Novel
by Kwok, Jean
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1594632006
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632006
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About This Item
Riverhead Books. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition, First Printing. Signed by the author on the TITLE page. NOT inscribed, NOT REMAINDER marked. NOT ex library. NOT Book Club. Securely wrapped, dust jacket in protective cover and shipped in a box. Full # line starting with a 1. Fine/Fine
Synopsis
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.
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- Garys Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU1012231
- Title
- Mambo in Chinatown: A Novel
- Author
- Kwok, Jean
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 5
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1594632006
- ISBN 13
- 9781594632006
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Place of Publication
- N Y
- This edition first published
- 2014-06-24
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