num_pages: 416
description: The author of the beloved Love Letters to the Dead returns with a parallel story of a mother and daughter each at age seventeen. Marilyn's tale recounts the summer she fell in love and set out on her own path. Angie's story is about her search for her unknown father.This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie who is mixed-race Marilyn is her hardworking devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young too. When Marilyn was seventeen she 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 LA 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.
language: English
title: In Search Of Us
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)