New York: Riverhead Books, (2010) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, a coming of age story about "an immigrant girl forced to choose between two worlds and two futures. When Kimberly Chang and her mother emigrate from Hong Kong to Brooklyn squalor, she quickly begins a secret double life: exceptional schoolgirl during the day, Chinatown sweatshop worker in the evenings." Kwok herself immigrated from Hong Kong as a young girl, and worked with her family in a sweatshop. 290 pp. ISBN: 978-1594487569.