![]() Mia loves English, but her mother thinks she ought to focus on math, because Mia will never surpass a native English speaker she’ll be a “bicycle among cars”.įront Desk is testament to how a great story can grab you by the heart and never quite let go. In America, the Tangs are viewed primarily as poor non-white immigrants who don’t speak good English. In China, Mia’s parents were engineers Mia took private piano lessons an uncle was a doctor. ![]() The Tangs are excited and optimistic despite all the hardships they’ve faced since immigrating to America not that long ago. ![]() It’s 1993, and ten-year-old Mia Tang’s parents have just been employed by Mr Yao to manage Calivista Motel in Southern California. ![]() The fictional exploration of the social demotion caused by immigration is hardly new, but rarely has it been portrayed with such warmth and urgency as in Kelly Yang’s middle-grade novel Front Desk. ![]()
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