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Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel / Jean Kwok.
Van Pelt Library PS3611.W65 S43 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kwok, Jean, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Netherlands--Fiction.
- Netherlands.
- Chinese American women--Fiction.
- Chinese American women.
- Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
- Immigrants.
- United States.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Missing persons--Netherlands--Investigation--Fiction.
- Missing persons.
- Family secrets--Fiction.
- Family secrets.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 317 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2019]
- Summary:
- "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. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined." -- adapted from jacket
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780062834300
- 0062834304
- OCLC:
- 1102633875
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