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Dec 8, 2020 · Searching for Sylvie Lee. by Jean Kwok. 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.
Dec 8, 2020 · SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE is 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.
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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.
- There’S Something For Everyone
- It’S Cross-Cultural
- The Narrators Are Relatable, Nuanced, and Unreliable
- It Sparks Discussion
At its core, Searching for Sylvie Leeis a mystery. The novel’s eponymous golden child has gone missing after visiting the Netherlands, where she grew up with her aunt and uncle; as the story begins, her sister, Amy, leaves her home in New York to piece together what happened. “It’s designed to suck in the reader — and pull you in with the number of...
“The book is in English, but the inner dialogue is in each person’s native language,” Kwok tells EW. The story develops as three distinct narrators each relay their perspective of events: “For the mother, she’s thinking in Chinese; Sylvie, the golden child who disappears, is thinking in Dutch; and Amy, the younger timid sister, is thinking in Engli...
“I tend to love unreliable narrators,” Kwok admits. ”But what I realized when I was writing this book was that my narrators are unreliable not because they’re alcoholics or drug abusers or mentally unstable, but simply because they are human.” Her characters are always judging themselves. Most people are in awe of Sylvie and her accomplishments, ye...
Safe to say, Sylvie Lee offers plenty to talk about — get a few glasses of Pinot Grigio in your fellow book-clubbers, and you may even find some heated debates brewing. “Any issues that we have to deal with are not confined to any single country or place,” Kwok says. Already her readers have voiced opinions about the racism Kwok’s characters encoun...
Jun 20, 2019 · Searching for Sylvie Lee is a thought-provoking meditation on race, Chinese culture, mental health, and life in Amsterdam. This contemporary, character-driven mystery-thriller will keep you turning the pages.
Oct 17, 2019 · Searching for Sylvie Lee. Jean Kwok. John Murray Press, Oct 17, 2019 - Fiction - 336 pages. 'Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love, loss, and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins, #1 New York...
