Title: The book of dead birds : a novel /
Authors: Brandeis, Gayle.
Publisher: HarperCollins,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Racially mixed people Fiction; Mothers and daughters Fiction; Korean American women Fiction.; Birds Effect of water pollution on Fiction.; Women conservationists Fiction.; Domestic fiction.; San Diego (Calif.) Fiction.; Salton Sea (Calif.) Fiction.
Abstract: Having accidentally killed her mother's birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava's mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base.