One Crazy Summer
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 251
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: sisters, mothers [X], poets, african americans, civil rights movements, oakland (calif.), black panther party, black panther party, electronic books, electronic books [X]
The Joy Luck Club
The personal, often painful, histories of four Chinese American women who began meeting in San Francisco in 1949 to play mah jong are revealed as the daughter of one who has died searches for her sisters in China to tell them about the mother they never knew.
FIC
year: 2014
copies: 250
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 930
subjects: chinese american women, mothers and daughters, mother-daughter relationship, chinese americans, women, domestic fiction, tan, amy, chinese american literature, american literature, chinese american fiction, reminiscing in old age, loss (psychology), san francisco (calif.), audiobooks, mothers [X], female friendship, domestic fiction, family life, electronic books [X]