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"These pages offer the hardscrabble immigrant experience as seen through the eyes of Kimberly Chang, a teenager settling into a new life in Brooklyn with her mother, as new arrive from Hong Kong. This could easily be a YA book offering easy readability and a quick-moving narrative on some at-times painful subjects: immigrant labor abuse in Chinatown's factories, family conflicts and, of course, the pangs of first love. A fine summer read with some immensely likeable characters, as well as two characters who will emerge as so loathsome you can't wait for karma to kick in." - C. Murray 3/4 stars. |
