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020 $a9781250294616 (pbk.) :$cNT$385
040 $aTWTNM$beng$dTWTNM
082 04$a813.6$222
100 1 $aDellaira, Ava,$eauthor.
245 10$aIn search of us /$cAva Dellaira.
250 $aFirst Square Fish edition.
264 1$aNew York :$bSquare Fish, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing group, LLC,$c2019.
264 4$c©2018.
300 $a403 pages ;$c21 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent.
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia.
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier.
520 $aRelates the stories of Marilyn who, at age seventeen, fell in love with James, left her stage-mother, and set out on her own and Angie, her now seventeen-year-old daughter, who returns to Hollywood seeking her father.
520 $aWhen Marilyn was seventeen she fell in love with James, who was African-American. Their daughter, Angie, has never met James, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder if her dad is still alive. Angie sets off, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and whattrulyhappened to her father.
650 0$aRomance fiction.
650 0$aLove$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aMothers and daughters$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aIdentity (Philosophical concept)$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aSingle-parent families$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aRacially mixed people$vJuvenile fiction.
650 0$aYoung adult fiction.