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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780374305314
- Book Title
- In Search of Us
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.4 in
- Genre
- Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
- Topic
- Family / Parents, General, Family / Multigenerational, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
- Item Weight
- 16.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 416 Pages
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
ISBN-10
0374305315
ISBN-13
9780374305314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
237578496
Product Key Features
Book Title
In Search of Us
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Family / Parents, General, Family / Multigenerational, Family / General (See Also Headings under Social Themes), Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Juvenile Fiction, Young Adult Fiction
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
16.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Young Adult Audience
LCCN
2017-019595
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens' lives intertwine with their parents' pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira's L ove Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord's When We Collided will fall in love with this title."-- School Library Journal "...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." -- Kirkus "Both stories are engaging, packed with cultural references from their respective periods. But the most poignant aspect of the story is Angie's need to connect with the African American side of her family... this novel offers a thoughtful examination of racial identity."-- Booklist "Through both stories, Dellaira explores the complexities of relationships, particularly between mothers and daughters, while also examining racial identity. She successfully uses photography as a metaphor to demonstrate how people can view the same subjects from many different perspectives. Beautiful prose makes this novel perfect for readers who appreciate layered meaning and vivid, original imagery."-- VOYA, "Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens' lives intertwine with their parents' pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira's L ove Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord's When We Collided will fall in love with this title."-- School Library Journal "...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." -- Kirkus "Both stories are engaging, packed with cultural references from their respective periods. But the most poignant aspect of the story is Angie's need to connect with the African American side of her family... this novel offers a thoughtful examination of racial identity."-- Booklist "Through both stories, Dellaira explores the complexities of relationships, particularly between mothers and daughters, while also examining racial identity. She successfully uses photography as a metaphor to demonstrate how people can view the same subjects from many different perspectives. Beautiful prose makes this novel perfect for readers who appreciate layered meaning and vivid, original imagery."-- VOYA "Dellaira breathes her characters into vivid life, Marilyn with her yearning and her loneliness, James with his dreams. The story of their romance, their discovery of each other is beautifully told. The parallel stories of Marilyn and James and Angie and Sam are skillfully woven together, the suspense building as Angie moves toward uncovering the secret Marilyn has kept all these years. The heart-rending tragedy at the center of the novel is revealed only toward the end - a life-changing moment frozen in amber, with a haunting and terrible resonance for readers in the year 2018." - The Buffalo News, "Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens' lives intertwine with their parents' pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira's Love Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord's When We Collided will fall in love with this title."-- School Library Journal "...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." -- Kirkus "Both stories are engaging, packed with cultural references from their respective periods. But the most poignant aspect of the story is Angie's need to connect with the African American side of her family... this novel offers a thoughtful examination of racial identity."-- Booklist, Praise for Love Letters to the Dead: "I simply loved this book. Love Letters to the Dead is more than a stunning debut. It is the announcement of a bold new literary voice." -Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower "A brilliant story about the courage it takes to keep living after your world falls apart. A heart-wrenching celebration of love and friendship and family." -Laurie Halse Anderson, author of Speak "With beautiful observations of where life can take us, from grieving to celebrating, disappointment to wonder, LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD is a love letter to living." -Jay Asher, author of 13 Reasons Why "Dear Ava Dellaira: Your book broke my heart, and pieced it back together. As with Kurt, Janis, Amelia and the others who are gone but still somehow here, LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD leaves an indelible mark." -Gayle Forman, author of If I Stay "As wondrous - and as fearless - as a shooting star." -Lauren Myracle, author, The Winnie Years "Riveting, captivating, utterly disarming. I could not put this book down! LOVE LETTERS TO THE DEAD is like discovering a shoebox full of notes addressed to someone else. I read fast, afraid I'd be caught peeking at something I wasn't ever supposed to see. A voyeuristic delight!" -Siobhan Vivian, author of The List " Dear Ava, I loved your book." - Emma Watson "Well paced and cleverly plotted, this debut uses a fresh, new voice to tell a sometimes sad, sometimes edgy, but always compelling narrative. Fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han, get ready."- Booklist, starred review, "Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens' lives intertwine with their parents' pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira's Love Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord's When We Collided will fall in love with this title."-- School Library Journal "...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." -- Kirkus, "Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review, "Dellaira's debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead , was good; her second, which tells two connected tales set 18 years apart, is spectacular. Readers will be left sobbing, both for the characters they've come to love and for the state of the country--Dellaira draws on persistent racial divides to craft an ending that is surprising yet inevitable, heartbreaking, and hopeful." -- Publishers Weekly starred review "A coming-of-age novel about all kinds of love, this is a realistic look into how teens' lives intertwine with their parents' pasts. Readers who enjoyed Dellaira's L ove Letters to the Dead or Emery Lord's When We Collided will fall in love with this title."-- School Library Journal "...[A] compelling intergenerational tale. Achingly vibrant." -- Kirkus "Both stories are engaging, packed with cultural references from their respective periods. But the most poignant aspect of the story is Angie's need to connect with the African American side of her family... this novel offers a thoughtful examination of racial identity."-- Booklist
Dewey Decimal
813.6
Synopsis
The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a sweeping multi-generational story of a single mother and her biracial daughter, each at age seventeen. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When she was seventeen, Marilyn 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 Los Angeles 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. Alternating between Angie's present-day journey and Marilyn's romance set against the backdrop of LA in the '90s, the stories of In Search of Us intertwine to create a powerful tale about secrets and lies, race and identity, and mothers and daughters. Praise for In Search of Us "A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I'm in love with every page." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe "A masterful work of fiction. Exploring race and mother and daughter relationships, this novel is also one of the most tender and authentic takes on first love that I have ever read." --Jennifer Mathieu, author of MOXIE, The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a story of a mother and daughter each at age seventeen. Marilyn's tale recounts the summer she fell in love and set out on her own path. Angie's story is about her search for her unknown father., The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a sweeping multi-generational story of a single mother and her biracial daughter, each at age seventeen. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When she was seventeen, Marilyn 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 Los Angeles 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. Alternating between Angie's present-day journey and Marilyn's romance set against the backdrop of LA in the '90s, the stories of In Search of Us intertwine to create a powerful tale about secrets and lies, race and identity, and mothers and daughters. Praise for In Search of Us : "A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I'm in love with every page." --Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe "A masterful work of fiction. Exploring race and mother and daughter relationships, this novel is also one of the most tender and authentic takes on first love that I have ever read." --Jennifer Mathieu, author of MOXIE
LC Classification Number
PZ7.D3847At 2018
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