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The Joy Luck Club

author: Tan, Amy
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

Eve & Adam

author: Grant, Michael
After Evening Spiker has a terrible accident, she is rushed to her mother's billion-dollar research facility.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 560
subjects: human genetics, biomedical engineering, mothers and daughters, traffic accidents, san francisco (calif.) [X], genetics, mother-daughter relationship [X], science fiction

Bitter Melon

author: Chow, Cara
Frances, a Chinese-American student in a competitive school in San Francisco in the 1980s, begins to question her mother's insistence that she becomes a doctor when she accidentally enrolls in a speech class and discovers a hidden talent.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: mother-daughter relationship [X], self-realization, child abuse, high schools, chinese americans, san francisco (calif.) [X]

Girl, Unframed

author: Caletti, Deb
While spending a summer with her famous mother and her criminal boyfriend, Sydney Reilly, age fifteen, finds love with Nicco but her premonition of something bad coming proves dreadfully accurate.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 660

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