She was born Lillian Chin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, and she grew up on the West Side of Manhattan when the neighborhood still had rough edges. Her father toiled long hours in restaurants and her mother was a garment worker in Chinatown, and Chin and her four siblings grew up conversant with what it means to be poor. Raised eating with chopsticks, she remembers the revelation of drinking hot chocolate and eating Campbell’s chicken noodle soup for the first time – tantalizing tastes of the promise of life in America.    Read the article………………….