Jean Kwok, author portrait
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Jean Kwok

Jean Kwok was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Brooklyn as a young girl. She is the author of the national bestseller Girl in Translation and Mambo in Chinatown. Jean received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard and completed an MFA in fiction at Columbia. She worked as an English teacher and Dutch-English translator at Leiden University in the Netherlands, and now writes full-time.
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Mon Jul 13 | 07:00 PM
The Ripped Bodice
218 5th Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11215
Google Map

Tue Jul 14 | 07:00 PM
The Commons
5127 Delmar Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63108
Google Map

Wed Jul 15
Tattered Cover - Colfax
2526 E Colfax Ave
Denver, CO 80206
Google Map

Thu Jul 16 | 07:00 PM
Joseph-Beth Booksellers at Rockwood
2692 Madison Rd Ste M
Cincinnati, OH 45208
Google Map

Fri Jul 17 | 07:00 PM
Anderson's Bookshop
123 W Jefferson Ave
Naperville, IL 60540
Google Map

Sat Jul 18 | 06:00 PM
Barnes & Noble
1000 Research Blvd
Austin, TX 78759
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Wed Jul 22 | 06:00 PM
Kinney Bungalow
505 Point Judith Rd
Narragansett, RI 02882
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Thu Jul 23
Lovestruck Books
44 Brattle St
Cambridge, MA 02138
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