Record ID | marc_loc_updates/v36.i46.records.utf8:6090249:1174 |
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LEADER: 01174cam a2200301 a 4500
001 2008007093
003 DLC
005 20081113155811.0
008 080402s2008 mnu c 000 1 eng
010 $a 2008007093
020 $a9781571316813 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9781571316820 (pbk. : alk. paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $alcac
050 00 $aPZ7.W666584$bSl 2008
082 00 $a[Fic]$222
100 1 $aWilliams, Laura E.
245 10 $aSlant /$cLaura E. Williams.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aMinneapolis, Minn. :$bMilkweed Editions,$c2008.
300 $a149 p. ;$c21 cm.
520 $aThirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called "slant" and "gook," and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish--and a long-kept secret about her mother's death is revealed--Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.
650 1 $aSelf-acceptance$vFiction.
650 1 $aSelf-confidence$vFiction.
650 1 $aAdoption$vFiction.
650 1 $aKorean Americans$vFiction.
650 1 $aSingle-parent families$vFiction.
650 1 $aSurgery, Plastic$vFiction.