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In the early 1980s, Mary Hall is a little girl growing up in poverty in Camden, New Jersey, with her older brother Jacob and parents who, in her words, were great at making babies, but not so great at holding on to them. After her father leaves the family, she is raised among a commune of mothers in a low-income housing complex. Then, no longer able to care for the only daughter she has left at home, Mary's mother sends Mary away to a small town in...
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
276 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late 1980s on the Jersey shore, Jane Wong watches her mother shake ants from an MSG bin behind the family's Chinese restaurant. She is a hungry daughter frying crab rangoon for lunch, a child sneaking naps on bags of rice, a playful sister scheming to trap her brother in the freezer before he traps her first. Jane is part of a family staking their claim to the American dream, even as this dream crumbles. Beneath Atlantic City's promise lies...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A long-awaited memoir from an award-winning novelist-a candid, riveting account of her complicated, bohemian childhood and her return home to care for her ailing mother. In March 2020, Martha McPhee, her husband, and their two almost-grown children set out for her childhood home in New Jersey, where she finds herself grappling simultaneously with a mother slipping into severe dementia and a house that's been neglected of late. As Martha works to...
4) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself"--
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