Dragon chica
Subtitle: a novel
By: by May-lee Chai
Publisher: Gemma
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9781934848487
Subjects: Maturation (Psychology); Teenage girls; Adolescence; Refugees; Cambodians; Fiction
Description: "Funny, bittersweet story of a Cambodian-Chinese refugee teenager coming of age in the American Midwest"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: The shelf-life of miracles; title: The letter; title: Last chance, Nebraska; title: The ghost in the window; title: A million shades of black; title: Father dream; title: First days in the silver palace; title: Auntie; title: Summer storms; title: When I was a boy; title: The September I turned twelve again; title: The gamblers; title: Frying shrimp; title: Dragon chica; title: Silent people; title: Red lobster; title: St. Agnes; title: The first day; title: The churning of the sea; title: Saving Sourdi; title: Super 8; title: Giving in to the ghost; title: Duke; title: Our town; title: Ang Kor Wat of Des Moines; title: Sourdi's story; title: The belly of the prairie.