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Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel par Jean…
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Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel (édition 2019)

par Jean Kwok (Auteur)

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A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times Time Marie Claire Elle Buzzfeed Huffington Post Good Housekeeping The Week Goodreads New York Post Publishers Weekly and many more "This is a true beach read! You can't put it down!" ? Jenna Bush Hager, Today Show Book Club Pick "Powerful . . . 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 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, 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 grandmother?and 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 didn't 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, it's Amy's turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister's 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 Amy's complicated family?and herself?than 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 someone?especially those we love.… (plus d'informations)
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Titre:Searching for Sylvie Lee: A Novel
Auteurs:Jean Kwok (Auteur)
Info:William Morrow (2019), 336 pages
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Three women from a Chinese immigrant family navigate complicated secrets when an elder daughter goes missing while visiting her dying grandmother in the Netherlands. Terrified yet determined, Amy, the sheltered baby of the family, retraces her movements, but instead of simple answers, she discovers something much more valuable: the truth.

Sylvie, the elder daughter, was extremely hard working all her life at school and work to be successful and hoping for acceptance from family and friends. I was drawn into her struggles right away. The story switches from past to present to reveal what led up to her disappearance. I liked both Sylvie and Amy and their different personalities. There is a mystery but the story is mainly about family relationships, misunderstandings and secrets. This was an enjoyable story. ( )
  gaylebutz | Aug 27, 2023 |
Wanted to read this book of Jean Kwok, because her life in reality took her to Holland, and I wanted to see how she incorporated that into her writing. Of the 3 books of her's I've read, this was less engaging for me than the other two, but I loved the customs and idioms that came through for different cultures. My interest in her was respired by a local book ban of Girl in Translation, and my husband picking up my copy of Mambo in Chinatown, because he knew I liked it (dancing, tai chi, chinese medicine, and noodles, plus a little romance) and he likes all but the first of those things.

For more on the book ban, from Jean Kwok herself,read here:

https://www.inquirer.com/news/jean-kwok-central-bucks-book-ban-sexually-explicit...
I had to re-read the book because of this. I hope Bucks County comes up to breathe in oxygen and can stop this craziness of banning books that can help our children learn so much about life, both theirs, and ones that are vastly different. Thank you, Jean Kwok. ( )
  bookczuk | Apr 25, 2023 |
Another dnf. Maybe wasn’t the book for me at the time. ( )
  cathy.lemann | Mar 21, 2023 |

This book is outside my reading range. I did enjoy the author's previous book, Girl in Translation, so I figured this was worth a shot. And like what I wanted to do with some of the Danish foods described in the book, I devoured it.

The mom and two sisters (Sylvie and Amy) took turns telling their stories with two timelines: before and after Sylvie's disappearance. The mother's writing style was starkly different than the two daughters. It felt like a direct translation of Chinese. Nice touch.

I didn't get a great connection any character, especially Sylvie who I couldn't understand her motivations. Mostly I kept turning pages to find the solution from the mystery and the portrayal of the Netherlands.


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  wellington299 | Feb 19, 2022 |
Dysfunctional Family Drama? Mystery? Cultural exploration? Searching for Sylvie Lee is all of these and more. Even though I guessed some of the major secrets, I was still engaged and fascinated by the story and the lives of these characters. I listened to the audio book which included three narrators (Sylvie, Amy, Ma). I empathized with all the characters (major and mInor) and wished their lives could have been different. (Not really a spoiler) but no happily ever after - just an engaging and engrossing story. ( )
  NanetteLS | Feb 11, 2022 |
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A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK A BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times Time Marie Claire Elle Buzzfeed Huffington Post Good Housekeeping The Week Goodreads New York Post Publishers Weekly and many more "This is a true beach read! You can't put it down!" ? Jenna Bush Hager, Today Show Book Club Pick "Powerful . . . 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 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, 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 grandmother?and 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 didn't 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, it's Amy's turn to help. Terrified yet determined, Amy retraces her sister's 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 Amy's complicated family?and herself?than 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 someone?especially those we love.

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