Jean Kwok's 12 Tips on Individuality

Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation, offers up her tips on how to be an individual. Check out the list on BlogHer here!

Jean Kwok's Girl In Translation discussed on anniversary of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

In a moving essay, Hannah Lee recalls how Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation brought back her own memories of her childhood working in garment factories on the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. More...

Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok wins an ALA Alex Award

The Alex Awards are given to books written for adults that have special appeal to young adults, ages 12 through 18. Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation was honored to be a recipient for the 2011 Alex Awards.

San Francisco Chronicle on Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation

“In this moving story of hardship and triumph, a woman must live a double life as a scholar and a sweatshop worker after she emigrates from Hong Kong to America with her mother." more...

New York Times on Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation

"Kimberly Chang, the girl in the title of Jean Kwok’s first novel, comes to New York from Hong Kong in the early 1980s with her mother, chasing a better life. But they find themselves living in an unheated, all-but-condemned Brooklyn apartment and doing piecework in a Chinatown factory." more...

Check Out Jean Kwok's Tour Blog!

Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation, is on her book tour and blogging from the road on all topics from luggage for her shampoo to how to become a writer.

Jean Kwok Honors Her Mother in the Daily News

Read Girl in Translation’s Jean Kwok’s tribute to her mother, sharing her favorite story about her hard-working immigrant mother and her own feelings as she watches her own daughter grow up.

People Gives Jean Kwok's Girl in Translation Starred Review

“At age 5, Kwok moved with her family from Hong Kong to a New York City slum. Now a Harvard-educated mom, she has spun some of her experiences into this involving debut. Kimberly Chang, 11, aces school, falls in love-and helps her mom at a sweatshop until her lungs crust with dust. Kwok drops you right inside Kimberly's head, adding Chinese idioms to crisp dialogue. And the book's lesson-that every choice comes at the expense of something else-hits home in any language." (3 1/2 stars) more...

USA Today on Jean Kwok's "poignant" Girl in Translation

“Writing in first-person from Kim's point of view, Kwok cleverly employs phonetic spellings to illustrate her protagonist's growing understanding of English and wide-eyed view of American teen culture. The author draws upon her own experience as a child laborer in New York, which adds a poignant layer to Girl in Translation.” more...

Jean Kwok Talks to Reuters

Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation, opens up to Reuters about why she chose to write a novel and not a memoir, her similarities to her heroine, and the difficulty of depicting an immigrant’s struggle with language in fiction.