I was born with a talent. Not for dance, or comedy, or anything so delightful. I've always had a knack for school. Everything that was taught there, I could learn: quickly and without too much effort. [...] This is not to say that my education was always easy for me. When Ma and I moved to the U.S., I spoke only a few words of English, and for a very long time, I struggled. Girl in Translation has been read and praised in many Finnish book blogs, especially last year when its translation, Käännöksiä , was published. This book was on my To-Be-Read list for a long time before I finally bought it and read it. Although the book is - as its name implies - about translations and translating, I wanted to read it as the untranslated, original English version. The novel tells the story of Kim Chang and her mother, who immigrate to New York from Hong Kong. They are given the chance to start a new life in a new country, thanks to a seemingly helpful relative. But the promised land isn...