Title: Sleep in me
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.
Subjects: Filipino Americans, Brothers and sisters, Family, American Authors, Filipino American families, Sisters, Traffic accident victims, Childhood and youth, Biography, Authors, american, Filipinos, united states, Virginia, biography, Family, united states, Traffic accidents, Siblings
Places: United States, Great Bridge (Chesapeake, Va.)
People: Jon Pineda (1971-)
Time periods: 21st century