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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.
- ISBN: 9781571316813
- Author: Williams, Laura E.
- Published: 2008, Milkweed Editions
- Themes: Adoption, Death, Prejudice and racism, School, Secret, Self acceptance, Young adult
- Descriptors: Intermediate (ages 9-14), Realistic Fiction, United States
- No. of pages: 149