Slant

Description

Thirteen-year-old Lauren, a Korean-American adoptee, is tired of being called "slant" and "gook," and longs to have plastic surgery on her eyes, but when her father finds out about her wish--and a long-kept secret about her mother's death is revealed--Lauren starts to question some of her own assumptions.

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  Slant

  • 2008-09-01
  • 160 pages
  • Ebook
  • Milkweed Editions
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  Slant

  • 2014-04-01
  • 479 pages
  • Ebook
  • Open Road Media
• 

  Slant: A Novel

  • 2011
  • 222 pages
  • Paperback
  • Lethe Press

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