10 best adult books for teens

8. Girl in Translation, by Jean Kwok

Girl in Translation,” by Jean Kwok (Riverhead Books, 304 pp.) explores the challenges faced by Kimberly, a Chinese immigrant growing up in Brooklyn indebted to a stingy and cruel relative. The narrator and her mother work to subsist, while Kimberly excels academically and – she hopes – romantically.

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