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The Downstairs Girl

The Downstairs Girl

by Stacey Lee

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appears in Chinese and Fiction.

From the founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.By day, seventeenyearold 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 Sou...

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