![]() After Sylvie’s disappearance, Amy burns up her savings to fly to the Netherlands to find her. ![]() Sylvie falls in love with Lukas, but it’s an impossible union, not only because they’re second cousins but also because she’s already married to an unfaithful man and Estelle is Lukas’ girlfriend. Friends Estelle and Filip, whom Sylvie meets when she returns to the Netherlands, are duplicitous. ![]() No wonder: If you were Sylvie, you’d probably want to get as far away from the Dutch branch of your family as possible. When Jean Kwok’s latest novel opens, Sylvie has returned to the Netherlands to tend her dying grandmother’s funeral, then vanishes. After that, Sylvie was shipped back to the cramped Queens, New York, apartment of her Ma, Pa and adoring younger sister, Amy. She spent the first nine years of her life in the Netherlands with her grandmother her mother’s rich cousin, Helena Tan Helena’s husband, Willem and their son, Lukas. She is cold and even punitive toward people she doesn’t know, but she is capable of passionate love for the few who are close to her. Now grown, she’s brilliant and successful. ![]() ![]() As a child, Sylvie Lee had a lazy eye, a crooked tooth and a peculiar birthmark that she’s retained into adulthood. ![]()
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