Roots and wings
by Many Ly
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While in St. Petersburg, Florida, to give her grandmother a Cambodian funeral, fourteen-year-old Grace, who was raised in Pennsylvania, finally gets some answers about the father she never met, her mother's and grandmother's youth, and her Asian-American heritage.
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Buddhism, Cambodian Americans, Customs and practices, Fiction, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Grandmothers, Identity, Juvenile fiction, Mothers and daughters, Realistic fiction, Coming of age, Asian American families, Teenage girls, Fourteen-year-old girls, Cambodian American teenage girls, Cambodian American familiesPlaces
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Roots and Wings
2008, Random House Children's Books
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Roots and Wings
May 13, 2008, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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GRACE'S GRANDMOTHER HAS died, and she and her mother must travel back to the Cambodian community to give her a proper Cambodian funeral. But Grace wants to use the trip to solve a few mysteries, like who her father was, why her mother and grandmother moved from St. Petersburg to Pennsylvania, where they're the only Cambodians Grace has ever seen, and what Cambodian culture is really about.Embraced by her mother's old friends, Grace feels both at home and lost, fascinated by the traditions she's never known, but strangely judged by some members of the community. Can she make sense of, and honor, the life of the grandmother she barely knew? And will revelations about the past bring Grace closer to her mother, or push them even further apart?From the Hardcover edition.
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