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Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel
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9780062912022
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NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2019 BY Marie Claire Nylon Huffington Post CrimeReads Bookbub Book Riot Debutante Ball Like all most compelling mysteries, Jean Kwoks Searching for Sylvie Lee has a powerful emotional drama at its heart. 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 Water A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three womentwo sisters and their motherin 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 Translation It 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 grandmotherand then vanishes. Amy, the sheltered baby of the Lee family, is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older, Sylvie was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place, and didnt rejoin her family in America until age nine. Timid and shy, Amy has always looked up to her sister, the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love. But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Sylvie has always looked out for them. Now, its Amys turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sisters movements, flying to the last place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Sylvie, the golden girl, kept painful secrets . . . secrets that will reveal more about Amys complicated familyand herselfthan she ever could have imagined. A deeply moving story of family, secrets, identity, and longing, Searching for Sylvie Lee is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive portrait of an immigrant family. It is a profound exploration of the many ways culture and language can divide us and the impossibility of ever truly knowing someoneespecially those we love.
- | Author: Jean Kwok
- | Publisher: HarperLuxe
- | Publication Date: February 18, 2020
- | Number of Pages: 464 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 006291202X
- | ISBN-13: 9780062912022
- Author:
- Jean Kwok
- Publisher:
- HarperLuxe
- Publication Date:
- February 18, 2020
- Number of pages:
- 464 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 006291202X
- ISBN-13:
- 9780062912022