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This place is still beautiful

Tian, XiXi (Young adult author), author

2022

Overview

\"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.

• Publisher: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
• 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. / Sisters Fiction. / Racism Fiction. / Asian American women Fiction. / Asian American teenagers Fiction. / Asian American families Fiction. / Family secrets Fiction. / Summer Fiction. / Mothers and daughters Fiction. / Chinese Americans Fiction. / Discrimination Fiction. / Man-woman relationships Fiction. / YOUNG ADULT FICTION - Family - Siblings. / YOUNG ADULT FICTION - People & Places - United States - Asian American & Pacific Islander. / YOUNG ADULT FICTION - Romance - Contemporary. / YOUNG ADULT FICTION - Diversity & Multicultural. / Asian American families. / Asian American teenagers. / Asian American women. / Family secrets. / Racism. / Sisters. / Summer. / Middle West Juvenile fiction. / Middle West Fiction. / Middle West.
• ISBN: 9780063086029, 0063086026

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PZ7.1.T5462 TH 2022	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE