03107cam a2200337 4500 524315652 TxAuBib 20211105120000.0 ||||||s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781101975480 1101975482 78954c71-24ed-4c08-be32-e94f07bffbcf OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1760157 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kwok, Jean. Mambo in Chinatown [Libby] : A Novel. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2014. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 353MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 353MB. Fiction. Literature. HTML:<b>From the bestselling author of <i>Girl in Translation</i>, a novel about a young woman torn between her family duties in Chinatown and her escape into the world of ballroom dancing.</b><br /> <br /> Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York’s Chinatown, the older daughter of a Beijing ballerina and a noodle maker. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese), Charlie’s entire world has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same tiny apartment with her widower father and her eleven-year-old sister, and works—miserably—as a dishwasher.<br /> <br /> But when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom dance studio, Charlie gains access to a world she hardly knew existed, and everything she once took to be certain turns upside down. Gradually, at the dance studio, awkward Charlie’s natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, expectations, and sense of self are transformed—something she must take great pains to hide from her father and his suspicion of all things Western. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child exclusively with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is forced to try to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds—Eastern and Western, old world and new—to rescue her little sister without sacrificing her newfound confidence and identity. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Lin Angela. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/5108-1/1760157-MamboInChinatown.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1760157-MamboInChinatown.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=78954C71-24ED-4C08-BE32-E94F07BFFBCF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/5108-1/1760157-MamboInChinatown.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/1760157-MamboInChinatown.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=78954C71-24ED-4C08-BE32-E94F07BFFBCF&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)