BookDragon A.E. Kaplan Tag

26 Apr, by Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center in Fiction, Korean American, Nonethnic-specific, Repost, Young Adult Readers

Tom Grendel can divide his 17-year-old life in "exactly three phases: before Mom, after Mom but before Dad/Iraq, and my current post-Dad/Iraq period." Tom's mother died suddenly when he was 9. His father deployed to Iraq, leaving Tom and his sister, Zipora, with their grandmother....