Swimming to America
By: Alice Mead.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 153
Subjects: Immigrants -- Fiction.; Identity -- Fiction.; Self-perception -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Eighth grader Linda Berati struggles to understand who she is within the context of her mother's secrecy about the family background, her discomfort with her old girlfriends, her involvement with the family problems of her Cuban-American friend Ramon, and an opportunity to attend a school for "free spirits" like herself.