Searching for Sylvie Lee (41 page)

Authors: Jean Kwok

BOOK: Searching for Sylvie Lee

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All of my love to the Kwok and Kluwer families, especially Betty and Gerard, and to my brothers Joe (Chow), York, and Choi. And finally, my deepest love and gratitude to Erwin, Stefan, and Milan, who put up with not only my months of traveling, but also the months when I’m at home writing and therefore burning all of our food.

P.S. Kisses to the cats for being furry and orange: Anibaba, Timoto, Sushi, and Couscous.

About the Author

J
EAN KWOK
is the
New York Times
and international bestselling author of
Girl in Translation
and
Mambo in Chinatown
. Her work has been published in eighteen countries and taught in universities, colleges, and high schools across the world. She has been selected for numerous honors, including the American Library Association Alex Award, the Chinese American Librarians Association Best Book Award, and the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award international shortlist. She is trilingual, fluent in Dutch, Chinese, and English, and studied Latin for seven years. Jean immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood. She received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in fiction at Columbia University. She currently lives in the Netherlands.

Also by Jean Kwok

Girl in Translation
Mambo in Chinatown

T
his is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE
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Cover design by Ploy Siripant

Hand-lettering by Joel Holland

Cover photograph © Benjamin Van Der Spek / EyeEm / Getty Images

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.

Digital Edition JUNE 2019 ISBN 978-0-06-283433-1

Print ISBN 978-0-06-283430-0

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