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Overview
An enchanting and very moving novel about the bond between two sisters growing up first generation Korean-American is now in paperback. Cleo was everything her little sister Marcy wanted to be: beautiful, alluring, and fiercely independent. But when Cleo comes home from college Marcy realizes that her older sister is no longer the person she once idolized. Their summer together is a tramatic one, of emerging sexuality and a sudden death. When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon transcends all borders with its universal story of the importanceand inevitabilityof family.Editorials
Washington Post Book World
...written with gusto...and will likely find a pleasant place in summer beach bags.Korea Times
When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon lays the tales of love, family, and race all in one basket... Park's poignant novel... comes to us as a cautionary tale about the perils of the American dream.Taipei Times
This is a delicate, humane, funny novel... that stands within the best tradition of imaginative writingSingapore Strait Times
In her coming-of-age novel about two sisters, every page of which bears the imprint of her emotional and spiritual investment, Frances Park shows what a woman writer can achieve with such rich material at hand.Times Literary Supplement
Frances Park's gently evocative style is allied to a complex story-telling that balances past and present, accurate and deluded perceptions of reality; it is an interesting addition to the genre of ethnic American coming-of-age novels.Independent
Frances Park - Washington chocolatier turned novelist - writes about make-up with the kind of passion usually reserved for truffles... Like Amy Tan and Gish Jen before her, Park describes the difficulties facing second generation children.Image Magazine
When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon...has the sharpness and bite of a fine dark chocolate rather than the cloying sweetness of milky variety.....This is a story of redemption told with wonderful understanding and restraint.USA Today
While bookshelves tremble under the weight of coming-of-age novels, there's nothing overworked about Cleopatra Moon... the story is fast and racy...Park opens us to the notion that when it comes to family, things aren't usually the way they seem.Book Details
Published
April 1, 2000
Publisher
New York : Talk Miramax Books : c2000.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780786866472