EAN: 9781529398281

SEARCHING FOR SYLVIE LEE - JEAN KWOK TASCHENBUCH

Powerful . . . A twisting tale of love  loss  and dark family secrets' Paula Hawkins  #1 New
York Times bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water It begins with a
mystery. Sylvie  the beautiful  brilliant  successful older daughter of the Lee family  flies
to the Netherlands for one final visit with her dying grandmother - and then vanishes. Amy  the
sheltered baby of the Lee family  is too young to remember a time when her parents were newly
immigrated and too poor to keep Sylvie. Seven years older  Sylvie was raised by a distant
relative in a faraway  foreign place  and didn't rejoin her family in America until age nine.
Timid and shy  Amy has always looked up to her sister  the fierce and fearless protector who
showered her with unconditional love. But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are
distraught and desperate for answers. Sylvie has always looked out for them. Now  it's Amy's
turn to help. Terrified yet determined  Amy retraces her sister's movements  flying to the last
place Sylvie was seen. But instead of simple answers  she discovers something much more
valuable: the truth. Sylvie  the golden girl  kept painful secrets . . . secrets that will
reveal more about Amy's complicated family - and herself - than she ever could have imagined. A
deeply moving story of family  secrets  identity  and longing  Searching for Sylvie Lee is both
a gripping page-turner and a sensitive portrait of an immigrant family. It is a profound
exploration of the many ways culture and language can divide us and the impossibility of ever
truly knowing someone - especially those we love.

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