The book of dead birds
Subtitle: a novel
By: Gayle Brandeis.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Women conservationists -- Fiction.; Birds -- Effect of water pollution on -- Fiction.; Korean American women -- Fiction.; Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.; Racially mixed people -- Fiction.; Salton Sea (Calif.) -- Fiction.; San Diego (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Having accidentally killed her mother's birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava's mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base.