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.It begins with a mystery. 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.

secrets that will reveal more about Amy's complicated family'and herself'than she ever could have imagined. Sylvie the golden girl kept painful secrets. But instead of simple answers she discovers something much more valuable: the truth. Terrified yet determined Amy retraces her sister's movements flying to the last place Sylvie was seen.

But what happened to Sylvie? Amy and her parents are distraught and desperate for answers. Timid and shy Amy has always looked up to her sister the fierce and fearless protector who showered her with unconditional love. 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. 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. 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.

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 A poignant and suspenseful drama that untangles the complicated ties binding three women'two sisters and their mother'in one Chinese immigrant family and explores what happens when the eldest daughter disappears and a series of family secrets emerge from the New York Times bestselling author of Girl in Translation It begins with a mystery. An Instant New York Times Bestseller! A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick & Emma Roberts Belletrist Book Club Pick! NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK BY New York Times ' Time ' Marie Claire ' Elle ' Buzzfeed ' Huffington Post ' Good Housekeeping ' The Week ' Goodreads ' New York Post ' and many more! 'Powerful.

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