Hank and Karen Brighton owned an organic grocery store in Oregon until they’re inspired to start selling clothes and goods from India and other countries. It’s not long before they’ve created Kaleidoscope, which becomes a shopping empire, enticing wealthy people to explore the more exotic side of fashion, furnishings, and art.

Another dysfunctional family saga. Kaleidoscope, the shopping empire built by the family with Morgan as the design genius. The tight bond between the sisters. The different relationships with their parents. Told in beautiful detail with quippy dialogue. . . . A deftly written family saga that explores—and challenges—the contemporary American dream and the meaning of home and family.” My first book, The Houdini Box, which I both wrote and illustrated, was published in 1991 while I was still working at the bookstore. Since then, I have illustrated many books for children, including Frindle by Andrew Clements, The Doll People by Ann Martin and Laura Godwin, Amelia and Eleanor Go for a Ride by Pam Muñoz Ryan and The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins by Barbara Kerley, which received a 2001 Caldecott Honor.KALEIDOSCOPE is a moving tale about finding yourself again and reconciliation. Regardless of some complaints, this family drama is worthy a journey. This is a story of sisterhood, ambition, and the complex tangled-ness of relationships between sisters, lovers, and parents . . . a book about love, grief, and forgiveness.” Tragedy, though, has a way of laying things bare. Riley slowly comes to understand herself and the rest of her family in her year of dealing with unbearable grief. Nothing is as it seemed. Cecily Wong’s Kaleidoscope is a dazzling meditation on excess and loss, sensuality and separation. A tour de force contemplation of the end of youth. Not only is it emotionally gripping, structurally brilliant, and conceptually mesmerizing, it’s pure good fun too—lusciously rich in description and replete with all varieties of readerly pleasure.” Megan grows up to be a strong girl who fights for what she believes in. The character was not adequately developed by Steele and she does remain a bit distant to the reader.

Wong’s insightful and compelling novel follows two sisters in a moving and complex look at ambition and success.” Megan, si bungsu yang masih berusia 1 tahun, diangkat David Abrams dan Rebecca, istrinya. Keduanya pengacara muda yang bersemangat. Pernikahan dan karir Sam yg melesat membuat suasana jadi cerah, untuk tahu-tahu dibuat "jatuh" dengan peristiwa tak terduga......Pembunuhan. Solange dibunuh Sam, di depan anak-anaknya............... The story starts as a slow burn but it takes a sharp turn when you least expect. Wong handles themes of family, grief, healing, forgiveness, identity, loyalty and sisterhood. The novel is about complex sister dynamics, yet I thought that it wasn't explored in its nuance and in depth - I enjoyed Riley as a messy character who was carving out a different path but I just needed more of Morgan. Since Kaleidoscope imports goods from India, it was interesting to learn a bit about Indian colonial history and Indian traditional handcrafts. In an attempt to transport readers to several places, Wong includes all the (food/travel) descriptions but it often felt overdetailed, distracting me from the reading. Having said that, it was delightful to be given a piece of NYC and the book made me want to travel immediately.The author balances her characters’ palpable emotions with whip-smart commentary on cultural commodification…. It’s a smash.” A dazzling and heartfelt novel about two sisters caught in their parents' ambition, the accident that brings it all crashing down, and the journey that follows. Renata’s wren encounter proves magical, one most children could only wish to experience outside of this lovely story. This coming of age story feels so very important, delving deep into family as much as personal growth. Because who are we without those who raised us, who were raised alongside us? Not that Riley is trapped or even defined by the Brightons, but to ignore them would make her less, would make the story less. Wong’s character is amazingly herself. It all changes when a private investigator is asked to find the three girls by a guilt prone friend of their father's who is about to die and wishes to see them united.