First of all, I am disagree with the subtitle of this book "a novel" (?) It should be "classified" as a semi-autobiography.
It is a book about a girl who immigrated to the United States with her mother when she was eleven years with a hope of better life in the adopted country. Upon arrival, she found herself living in a tiny unheated apartment and beginning her new life with backbreaking labor in a Chinatown sweatshop. That is certainly NOT the life she wants. She decides to use her “talent for school” and eventually received a college degree from Harvard University.
It is a powerful storytelling. It is kind of a “déjà vu” type of book. Why I like this book? - it is a 21st century Cinderella story.
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