This place is still beautiful / XiXi Tian.
A sweeping debut novel about first love, complicated family dynamics, and the pernicious legacy of racism, This Place Is Still Beautiful follows two estranged teen sisters who reunite in their small Midwestern town when their family becomes the victim of a hate crime. The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town. When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City. She expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margarets own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable. For Annalie, this was meant to be a summer of new possibilities, and she resents her sisters sudden presence and insistence on drawing negative attention to their family. Meanwhile Margaret is infuriated with Annalies passive acceptance of what happened. For Margaret, the summer couldnt possibly get worse, until she crosses paths with someone she swore shed never see again: her first love, Rajiv Agarwal. As the sisters navigate this unexpected summer, an explosive secret threatens to break apart their relationship, once and for all. This Place Is Still Beautiful is a luminous, captivating story about identity, sisterhood, and how our hometowns are inextricably a part of who we are, even when we outgrow them.--Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781669641308
- ISBN: 1669641309
- Physical Description: 1 audio media player (10 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2022]
- Copyright: 2022.
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General Note: | Previously released by HarperCollins, 2022. Title from Playaway label. Release date supplied by publisher. Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player. One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Performed by Cindy Kay and Katharine Chin. |
Target Audience Note: | Adult. |
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Subject: | Sisters > Fiction. Racism > Fiction. Asian American women > Fiction. Middle West > Fiction. |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Playaway (Preloaded audio player). Domestic fiction. Fiction. Domestic fiction. Audiobooks. Sound recordings. |
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Hughes Library | PA YAF TIA (Text) | 32378005130986 | YA Audiobook | Available | - |