In Search of Us

Fiction - YA, Social Issues, Kids, Teen, Love and Romance
Cover of the book In Search of Us by Ava Dellaira, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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Author: Ava Dellaira ISBN: 9780374305338
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Publication: March 6, 2018
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) Language: English
Author: Ava Dellaira
ISBN: 9780374305338
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Publication: March 6, 2018
Imprint: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Language: English

This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.

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This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.

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