{"id":2269,"date":"2021-09-03T17:30:55","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T17:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/?page_id=2269"},"modified":"2023-10-24T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T16:23:49","slug":"the-queens-of-new-york","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/galltzacker.com\/rights\/e-l-shen\/the-queens-of-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"THE QUEENS OF NEW YORK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-title\"><strong><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Three best friends have one life-changing summer in this contemporary, Asian American Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-title\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang have been best friends since their parents took them to Flushing, Queens\u2019 Lunar New Year festival when they were seven years old. Now seventeen, they\u2019re inseparable. The only thing is, they won\u2019t be together this summer.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-title\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Jia will be home in Flushing, juggling her parents\u2019 Chinatown restaurant, a cute new neighbor, and dreams for her uncertain future. Ariel is flying to San Francisco for a prestigious psychology scholarship \u2014 even though her heart is in South Korea, where her sister died last year. And Everett hopes to nab the lead role in an Ohio theater production that is not exactly what it seems. As the girls grapple with first love, family duty, grief, and racism, they lean on each other and realize that even though they\u2019re apart, they are still mighty together.<\/span><\/p>\r\n<p class=\"_04xlpA direction-ltr align-start para-style-title\"><span class=\"JsGRdQ\">Inspired by the author\u2019s own hometown and friendships, THE QUEENS OF NEW YORK is an uplifting and cinematic young adult story that will break your heart and put it back together again.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three best friends have one life-changing summer in this contemporary, Asian American Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Jia Lee, Ariel Kim, and Everett Hoang have been best friends since their parents took them to Flushing, Queens\u2019 Lunar New Year festival when they were seven years old. Now seventeen, they\u2019re inseparable. 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