Slant
By: Laura E. Williams
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9781571316813; 9781571316820
Subjects: Korean Americans; Self-confidence; Self-acceptance; Adoption; Plastic Surgery; Single-parent families; Fiction
Description: Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called "slant" and "gook," and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish--and a long-kept secret about her mother's death is revealed--Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.