Jean Kwok Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jean-kwok/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Thu, 12 Oct 2023 23:53:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg Jean Kwok Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/reviews/authors/jean-kwok/ 32 32 38398750 The Leftover Woman by Jean Kwok https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-leftover-woman-by-jean-kwok/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2023/10/the-leftover-woman-by-jean-kwok/#respond Fri, 13 Oct 2023 07:22:41 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=17937 From the time she was a child Jasmine has known she was leftover. Born in a small village in China during the years of its restrictive One Child Policy she wouldn’t even be alive if her twin sibling hadn’t been a boy. Marriage could have been her way out, but instead, in Jean Kwok’s new […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/06/searching-for-sylvie-lee-by-jean-kwok/feed/ 6 12827 Mambo in Chinatown https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/06/mambo-chinatown/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2014/06/mambo-chinatown/#comments Mon, 23 Jun 2014 07:25:53 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=2974 Jean Kwok is back with Mambo in Chinatown, another tenderly crafted novel about the assimilation process for Chinese immigrants in America. This time we’re absorbed into the life of Charlie Wong, a twenty-two year old woman, who, as the novel begins, is working as a dishwasher in a restaurant where her father is the master […]

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