Life is funny
By: E. R. Frank
Edition: First Atheneum Hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781481431637
Copyright date: 2000
Subjects: Interpersonal relations; Family problems; City and town life; Fiction
Description: Why does Gingerbread always have a smile on his face?  Because life is funny,  he tells Keisha. But for her and almost everyone else in her Brooklyn neighborhood there doesn t seem to be much to laugh about. China, Ebony, and Grace are best friends, but Grace s mother isn t crazy about her being friends with two girls who aren t white, and each cut Ebony makes on her wrist seems to drive them even further apart. Just across the schoolyard there s Eric who has to raise his younger brother Mickey, even though no one expects him to amount to anything. Meanwhile, Sonia s Muslim parents expect everything of her, and it may be more than she is able to give after she suffers a shattering loss.When Drew brings his father s Jaguar into Sam s family s auto body shop across town they seem to be from opposite sides of the tracks, but Drew s the one hiding a dark family secret. And he s not the only one.
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