Gloria Minott Presents...Jean Kwok (Writer/Author of Girl In Translation)_Episode 174

A conversation with Jean Kwok about her book "Girl In Translation" and her early life as a Chinese immigrant living in NYC. Jean Kwok is a New York Times and international bestselling author of the award-winning novels Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Jean immigrated from Hong Kong to Brooklyn when she was five and worked in a Chinatown clothing factory for much of her childhood while living in an unheated, roach-infested apartment. In between her undergraduate degree at Harvard and MFA in fiction at Columbia, she worked for three years as a professional ballroom dancer. A television documentary was filmed about Jean and her work. More information can be found at www.jeankwok.com www.facebook.com/JeanKwokAuthor www.twitter.com/JeanKwok