The Weight Of Water
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 31
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: immigrants, mothers and daughters [X], swimming, alienation (social psychology), novels in verse, coventry (england), england [X], mother-daughter relationship, race relations, novels in verse, bildungsromans