03122cam a2200313 4500 560292066 TxAuBib 20220609120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780063086043 0063086042 B09FLRX5HP Amazon c291e86a-ae1b-49c3-9d0e-c7ded83d7824 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 6664257 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Tian, XiXi. This Place Is Still Beautiful [Libby eBook]. HarperCollins, 2022. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3254kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. HTML:<p><strong>A sweeping debut novel about first love, complicated family dynamics, and the pernicious legacy of racism. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi, Jandy Nelson, and Emily X.R. Pan, with crossover appeal for readers of Brit Bennett's The Vanishing Half and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You.</strong></p> <p>The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town.</p> <p>When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City. She expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margaret's own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable.</p> <p>For Annalie, this was meant to be a summer of new possibilities, and she resents her sister's sudden presence and insistence on drawing negative attention to their family. Meanwhile Margaret is infuriated with Annalie's passive acceptance of what happened. For Margaret, the summer couldn't possibly get worse, until she crosses paths with someone she swore she'd never see again: her first love, Rajiv Agarwal.</p> <p>As the sisters navigate this unexpected summer, an explosive secret threatens to break apart their relationship, once and for all.</p> <p>This Place Is Still Beautiful is a luminous, captivating story about identity, sisterhood, and how our hometowns are inextricably a part of who we are, even when we outgrow them.</p>. Young Adult Literature. Young Adult Fiction. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-06-08 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c291e86a-ae1b-49c3-9d0e-c7ded83d7824&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c291e86a-ae1b-49c3-9d0e-c7ded83d7824&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=c291e86a-ae1b-49c3-9d0e-c7ded83d7824&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)