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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. This was hard to read. Grace was hard to sympathise with. I guess her self-centredness, superficiality, and lack of empathy are traits expected in teenagers, but they don't make for the most sympathetic POV characters. Aside from that, this was a book filled with old and new pain and peopled by characters who were limited by that pain. Still, there were some flashes of reaching out, some bits of explanation. Overall, it was okay. Grace never knew her father because her mother and grandmother moved from Florida to Pennsylvania right before she was born. So when her grandmother dies and they return to Florida to give her a proper Cambodian burial, Grace thinks she will finally find some answers to her past. But it seems like all she comes up with are more questions, as she learns about her mother's and gradmother's histories and her own past. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Grace's grandmother has died, and she and her mother must travel back to the Cambodian community to give her a proper Cambodian funeral. But Grace wants to use the trip to solve a few mysteries, like who her father was, why her mother and grandmother moved from St. Petersburg to Pennsylvania, where they're the only Cambodians Grace has ever seen, and what Cambodian culture is really about. Embraced by her mother's old friends, Grace feels both at home and lost, fascinated by the traditions she's never known, but strangely judged by some members of the community. Can she make sense of, and honor, the life of the grandmother she barely knew? And will revelations about the past bring Grace closer to her mother, or push them even further apart? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I found this interesting. Being born in the US, I never gave a thought about talking of the past. We do it a lot. After reading this I understand why my grandparents did not tell their children of the hardships of the old country. I also understood Grace's side because if no one will answer her questions, not only of her family's past but of the culture they follow within the Cambodian culture, how can she learn so she does not offend others. The characters of the book who help Grace teach her a lot about the past and her culture as well as the whys. This is a good read. ( )