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Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political change and the ghosts of the past"--
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A clever and propulsive debut novel tracing the complicated relationship between a larger-than-life actress who refuses to abandon her career for motherhood, and the daughter she chooses to abandon instead, as they confront one another once and for all"--
Author
Publisher
Headline Review
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Alison is lucky and she knows it. She has the life she always craved, including a happy home with Jeff and their brilliant, vivacious teenage daughter, Katherine - the absolute centre of Alison's world. Then a knock at the door ends life as they know it. Fifteen years ago, someone else took Alison's baby from the hospital. And now Alison is facing the unthinkable. The daughter she brought home doesn't belong to her. When you have everything you dreamed...
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Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
20240521
Language
English
Description
"After her parents split up, seven-year-old Lisa's father convinces her to leave out the window in the middle of the night. After all, according to their religion, she belongs to him, and it is her duty to obey him. Ever the dutiful daughter, at least on the outside, and confused about the sinful changes in her mother (she's cut her hair, there's a new man around, she's had a baby with him), Lisa complies. She spends the next nine years on the run...
Author
Series
Publisher
Titania
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Still reeling from her mother’s death, Carol embarks on their mother-daughter trip to Positano, Italy, alone, where she encounters her mother in the flesh at thirty years old and must reconcile the mother who knew everything with this young woman who does not yet have a clue.
Author
Publisher
Pinata Books, an imprint of Arte Publico Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
""Jacqueline Bravo can't understand why she's being called to the principal's office and is shocked to learn her mother hasn't paid her tuition at St. Bernadette High School in three months! Now Sister Mary Grace is threatening to kick her out and even recommends a vocational school until she gets married. Finances have been tight ever since Jacqui's father was killed in Vietnam. She is determined to win the alumni scholarship to UCLA, and there's...
Author
Publisher
AmazonCrossing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the unexpected loss of her mother, Phoenix Yuan-Whyller brings her mother's ashes back to her homeland of China, on what at first seems like a daughter's quest to uncover a mother's secrets, but soon becomes a startling journey of self-discovery.
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