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From the best-selling author of Gal in Translation, a novel about a young woman torn between her family tasks in Chinatown and her get away from in to the world of ballroom dance. Twenty-two-year-old Charlie Wong grew up in New York's Chinatown, the more mature daughter of an Beijing ballerina and a noodle machine. Though an ABC (America-born Chinese language), Charlie's planet has been limited to this small area. Now grown, she lives in the same very small apartment with her widower daddy and her 11-year-old sister, and works - miserably - as a dishwasher. However when she lands a job as a receptionist at a ballroom party studio, Charlie increases access to a world she hardly realized existed, and everything she once had taken to be sure turns upside down. Gradually, at the party studio, awkward Charlie's natural talents begin to emerge. With them, her perspective, anticipations, and sense of do it yourself are altered - something she must take great discomfort to cover up from her daddy and his suspicion of most things European. As Charlie blossoms, though, her sister becomes chronically ill. As Pa insists on treating his ailing child entirely with Eastern practices to no avail, Charlie is required to attempt to reconcile her two selves and her two worlds - Eastern and American, old world and new - to rescue her little sister without restricting her newfound self confidence and identity.
