Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel /
Kwok, Jean,
Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel / Jean Kwok. - First edition. - 317 pages ; 24 cm
"A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined." -- adapted from jacket
9780062834300 0062834304
2019012139
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Netherlands--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Netherlands--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Searching for Sylvie Lee : a novel / Jean Kwok. - First edition. - 317 pages ; 24 cm
"A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women--two sisters and their mother--in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears, and a series of family secrets emerge. Sylvie, the beautiful, brilliant, successful older daughter of the Lee family, flies to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother-- and vanishes. Amy is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie, who was raised by a distant relative in a faraway, foreign place. Amy flies to the last place Sylvie was seen, retracing her sister's movements. It seems Sylvie kept painful secrets that reveal more about Amy's family than she ever could have imagined." -- adapted from jacket
9780062834300 0062834304
2019012139
Chinese American women--Fiction.
Immigrants--United States--Fiction.
Sisters--Fiction.
Missing persons--Investigation--Netherlands--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Netherlands--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.