Mambo in Chinatown
By: Jean Kwok
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781594632006
Subjects: Family secrets; Families; Chinese Americans; Chinese American women; Ballroom dancers; Fiction
Description: Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong, having grown up in New York's Chinatown as the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker, is torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.