- Children's fiction, Household employees, fiction, Authorship, fiction, Chinese americans, fiction
By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady’s maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for the genteel Southern lady, “Dear Miss Sweetie.”
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Classical in form, earnest, meticulous and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- rawmeticulous
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Stacey Lee
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- G. P. Putnam's Sons, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Thorndike Striving Reader
- Editions
- 8
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781524740955
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- Children's fiction
- Household employees, fiction
- Authorship, fiction
- Chinese americans, fiction
- Georgia, fiction
- New York Times bestseller
- United states, history, 19th century, fiction
- American literature
- Young adult fiction, girls & women
- Young adult fiction, people & places, united states, asian american
- Young adult fiction, historical, united states, 19th century
Stacey Lee is the *New York Times* and *Indie* bestselling author of historical and contemporary young adult fiction, including ***The Downstairs Girl***, a Reese’s Book Club YA pick, ***Luck of the Titanic***, which received five starred reviews, and her gothic mystery, ***Heiress of Nowhere***, which *Booklist* called ‘an exceptional novel.’ A native of southern California and fourth-generation Chinese American, she practiced law for several years before retiring to start her real job writing books. Her books have been published in over a dozen countries and have won the Asian Pacific American Librarians Association award, the PEN Center award for best YA, the Northern California Book Awar
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