Low Price Guarantee
We Take School POs
In Search of Us
Contributor(s): Dellaira, Ava (Author)

View larger image

ISBN: 0374305315     ISBN-13: 9780374305314
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
OUR PRICE: $15.29  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2018
* Out of Print *
Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Young Adult Fiction | Romance - Multicultural & Interracial
- Young Adult Fiction | Travel & Transportation - Car & Road Trips
- Young Adult Fiction | Family - Multigenerational
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 2017019595
Age Level: 12-18
Grade Level: 7-13
Lexile Measure: 880(Not Available)
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 5.8" W x 8.3" L (1.00 lbs) 416 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
- Cultural Region - Southern California
- Geographic Orientation - California
- Geographic Orientation - New Mexico
- Ethnic Orientation - Multicultural
- Ethnic Orientation - African American
- Topical - Family
Features: Dust Cover, Ikids, Price on Product
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/15/2018
School Library Journal 02/01/2018 pg. 100
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2018
Voice of Youth Advocates 04/01/2018 - Recommended - Better Than Most
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2018 pg. 107 - Below Average, With Minor Flaw
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 198255
Reading Level: 5.6   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 14.0
 
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc.
Publisher Description:

The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a sweeping multi-generational story of a single mother and her biracial daughter, each at age seventeen.

To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When she was seventeen, Marilyn fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, 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: What if her dad is still alive, too?

So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to Los Angeles from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father.

Alternating between Angie's present-day journey and Marilyn's romance set against the backdrop of LA in the '90s, the stories of In Search of Us intertwine to create a powerful tale about secrets and lies, race and identity, and mothers and daughters.

Praise for In Search of Us:

A rare and special book. Part mother-daughter love story, part road trip journey, part compelling mystery, and one hundred percent beautiful, spellbinding tearjerker. I'm in love with every page.
--Jennifer Niven, New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe

A masterful work of fiction. Exploring race and mother and daughter relationships, this novel is also one of the most tender and authentic takes on first love that I have ever read.
--Jennifer Mathieu, author of MOXIE


Contributor Bio(s): Dellaira, Ava: - Ava Dellaira is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Truman Capote Fellow. She grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received her undergraduate degree from the University of Chicago. Love Letters to the Dead is her debut novel. She currently lives in Santa Monica
 
Customers who bought this item also bought...

Restore Me
Time Bomb
Down and Across
The Wicked Deep
We All Fall Down
All in Pieces - Reprint Edition
Not If I Save You First
9 Days and 9 Nights
 
Customer ReviewsSubmit your own review
 
To tell a friend about this book, you must Sign In First!