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01 Nov / Slant by Laura E. Williams [in Bloomsbury Review]

SlantFor years, 13-year-old Korean adoptee Lauren has endured the usual racial taunts for looking so different amidst her homogeneous fellow students in suburban Connecticut. Her popular and fearless best friend has done a far better job speaking up for her than Lauren herself! She’s convinced that surgery to her epicanthic fold-less eyes is the only way to fix her social problems and somehow even manages to convince her hapless father to agree.  Will she or won’t she?

Review: “TBR’s Editors’ Favorites of 2008,” The Bloomsbury Review, November/December 2008

Readers: Middle Grade, Young Adult

Published: 2008

By Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Middle Grade Readers, Repost, Young Adult Readers Tags > Adoption, Assimilation, Bloomsbury Review, BookDragon, Coming-of-age, Friendship, Girl power, Identity, Laura E. Williams, Slant
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