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Title This place is still beautiful / XiXi Tian.
Author Tian, XiXi (Young adult author), author.
Publication Info. New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2022]
©2022.
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Location Call No. Status
 Alafaya  YA FIC TIA    Check Shelves
 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Club Central  YA FIC TIA    Check Shelves
 South Creek  YA FIC TIA    Check Shelves
 Winter Garden  YA FIC TIA    Check Shelves
Edition First edition.
Description 360 pages ; 22 cm.
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Summary "The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City. She expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margaret's own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable. For Annalie, this was meant to be a summer of new possibilities, and she resents her sister's sudden presence and insistence on drawing negative attention to their family. Meanwhile Margaret is infuriated with Annalie's passive acceptance of what happened. For Margaret, the summer couldn't possibly get worse, until she crosses paths with someone she swore she'd never see again: her first love, Rajiv Agarwal. As the sisters navigate this unexpected summer, an explosive secret threatens to break apart their relationship, once and for all. This Place Is Still Beautiful is a luminous, captivating story about identity, sisterhood, and how our hometowns are inextricably a part of who we are, even when we outgrow them."-- Provided by publisher.
Audience 000-015.
Subject Sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Racism -- Juvenile fiction.
Asian American women -- Juvenile fiction.
Asian American teenagers -- Juvenile fiction.
Asian American families -- Juvenile fiction.
Family secrets -- Juvenile fiction.
Summer -- Juvenile fiction.
Middle West -- Juvenile fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Asian American women -- Fiction.
Asian American teenagers -- Fiction.
Asian American families -- Fiction.
Family secrets -- Fiction.
Summer -- Fiction.
Middle West -- Fiction.
Asian American families. (OCoLC)fst00818582
Asian American teenagers. (OCoLC)fst00818602
Asian American women. (OCoLC)fst00818606
Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651
Racism. (OCoLC)fst01086616
Sisters. (OCoLC)fst01119758
Summer. (OCoLC)fst01138503
Middle West. (OCoLC)fst01240052
Genre Young adult fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Romance fiction. (OCoLC)fst01921732
Social problem fiction. (OCoLC)fst01982507
Young adult works. (OCoLC)fst01726790
Domestic fiction.
Romance fiction.
Social problem fiction.
ISBN 9780063086029 (hardcover) : $18.99
0063086026 (hardcover)