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Come on in : 15 stories about immigration and finding home

Call Number

  • FICTION COME TEEN (CEN)

Publication Information

Toronto, Ontario : Inkyard Press, [2020]

Physical Description

314 pages ; 22 cm

Summary

This collection features stories from bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors.

An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands ... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting the myriad facets of the immigrant experience, the characters decide their own answer to the question "where are you from?"--Adapted from jacket

Contents

  • All the colors of goodbye / The wedding / Where I'm from / Salvation and the sea / Volviéndome / The trip / The curandera and the alchemist / A bigger tent / First words / Family over everything / When I was white / From Golden State / Hard to say / Confessions of an Ecuadorkian / Fleeing, leaving, moving

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