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Dennis-Benn, Nicole Garcia, Gabriela Jin, Meng Kwok, Jean. Rivero, Melissa Rum, Etaf Tan, Amy.Tan, Amy.
Summary: Struggling to regain her voice and express her true feelings to her husband, ghostwriter Ruth Young discovers that her inability to speak closely parallels the story of her mother LuLing's early life in China, where Ruth finds the famous bonesetter, a woman whose mouth was sealed shut during a suicide attempt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TANRivero, Melissa
Summary: "Thirtysomething Flores and her mother, Paula, still live in the same Brooklyn apartment, but that may be the only thing they have in common. It's been nearly three years since they lost beloved husband and father Martín, who had always been the bridge between them. One day, cleaning beneath his urn, Flores discovers a note written in her mother's handwriting: Perdóname si te falle. Recuerda...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RIVKwok, Jean.
Summary: Emigrating with her mother from Hong Kong to Brooklyn, Kimberly Chang begins a secret double life as an exceptional schoolgirl during the day and sweatshop worker at night, an existence also marked by her first crush and the pressure to save her family from poverty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KWOGarcia, Gabriela
Summary: "In present-day Miami. Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cuban immigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC GARJin, Meng
Summary: On the night of June Fourth, a woman gives birth in a Beijing hospital alone. Thus begins the unraveling of Su Lan, a brilliant physicist who until this moment has successfully erased her past, fighting what she calls the mind's arrow of time. When Su Lan dies unexpectedly seventeen years later, it is her daughter Liya who inherits the silences and contradictions of her life. Liya, who grew up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Jin 2020Garcia, Gabriela
Summary: "A sweeping, masterful debut about a daughter's fateful choice, a mother motivated by her own past, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. In present-day Miami, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen, a Cubanimmigrant, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2021
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Garcia 2021Garcia, Gabriela
Summary: The daughter of a Cuban immigrant battles addiction and the fallout of her decision to take in the child of an ICE detainee, while her mother wrestles with displacement trauma and complicated family ties.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GARDennis-Benn, Nicole
Summary: Receiving her long-coveted visa to America, Patsy leaves behind her family in Jamaica, only to discover that life as an undocumented immigrant is not what her best friend had described.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DENRum, Etaf
Summary: Raised in a conservative and emotionally volatile Palestinian family in Brooklyn, Yara thought she would finally feel free when she married a charming entrepreneur who took her to the suburbs. She's gotten to follow her dreams, completing an undergraduate degree in Art and landing a good job at the local college. As a traditional wife, she also raises their two school-aged daughters, takes care...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023