Sleep in me
By: Jon Pineda.
Series: American lives
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lincoln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9780803225350
Subjects: Pineda, Jon, -- 1971- -- Childhood and youth; Pineda, Jon, -- 1971- -- Family; Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography; Filipino Americans -- Biography; Filipino American families; Brothers and sisters -- United States; Sisters -- United States -- Biography; Traffic accident victims -- United States -- Biography; Great Bridge (Chesapeake, Va.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Description: Against the backdrop of his teenage sister{u2019}s car accident{u2014}in which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friends{u2014}Jon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica{u2019}s sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair-bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. This is his coming-of-age memoir of the boy haunted by family tragedy.