GIRL IN TRANSLATION: There are plenty of books about bright-eyed bushy-tailed newcomers to NYC, and Jean Kwok's 2010 novel Girl in Translation has that—with a difference. Her heroine, Kimberly Chang, is an teenage immigrant from China who goes to school during the day and works in a garment factory at night. Kimberly and her mother live in a roach- and rat-infested apartment, as they struggle to navigate New York City and out of poverty. Beautiful and intimately aching at the same time, Girl in Translation is one window into the lives of today's immigrants.