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Searching for sylvie lee jean kwok6/27/2023 She stayed in Amsterdam for more than 8 years, and when Ma and Pa had another daughter, Sylvie returned to NY, yet she felt she was called home to be a babysitter for her younger sister, Amy.Ĭommunication barriers and lack of understanding add to the tension of this story and is often the case with immigrant families. The feeling of rejection had a huge impact on Sylvie and her other relationships. Once Sylvie was born they sent her to the Netherlands to be cared for by Ma’s mother, as they thought it would be a better life for her. They were very poor and worked many jobs to stay afloat. Ma’s relationships with her daughters are complicated she immigrated to NYC when she and Pa were young and she was pregnant. When Amy hears that Sylvie has mysteriously disappeared, she has to pull it together to be strong, and travel overseas to find out what happened to her beloved big sister. Younger sister, Amy, is shy and insecure. Having grown up with her grandmother in the Netherlands, she felt compelled to return there when Grandma became ill. Smart, pretty and accomplished, Sylvie is the golden child in the family. A perfect combination of literary fiction and suspense, in Searching for Sylvie Lee, Jean Kwok lets us inside the minds of Chinese immigrant sisters Sylvie, Amy and their Ma.
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