Searching for sylvie lee reviews6/25/2023 ![]() Sylvie spent the first nine years of her life with them in Amsterdam, sent there from New York. Alarmed, Amy flies to the Netherlands, bent on finding out what happened at their cousins’ home. Then her cousin Lukas Tan phones from Amsterdam looking for Sylvie, who vanished at the end of her visit there. Amy still lives with her parents, stutters when she’s nervous, can’t decide on a profession, and faces a mountain of student debt from all the degrees she’s earned in trying to decide. ![]() ![]() She is everything younger sister Amy admires, adores, and resents. Sylvie is the eldest daughter, beautiful and brilliant, successful in a high-paying, high-powered career and married to the son of a wealthy WASP family. The Lees are a Chinese immigrant family living in New York. And during those months, Amy has uncovered a trail of family secrets, jealousies, love and loyalty. Seven months later at the close of the novel, it’s Christmastime and her parents sit together on a couch, holding hands. ![]() S earching for Sylvie Lee by Jean Kwok opens with her main character, Amy, looking out the window watching her parents leave for work, hoping to see her Ma and Pa exchange some small gesture, any sign of emotion, that will help her understand their relationship. ![]()
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