What Girls Learn Paperback - 1998
by Cook, Karin
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In the tradition of Anna Quindlen's "One True Thing" and Mona Simpson's "Anywhere But Here" comes a sensitive and emotional debut novel about girls and their mothers, sibling rivalry and kinship, and the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart of every family.
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- Title What Girls Learn
- Author Cook, Karin
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0679769447I3N00
- ISBN 9780679769446 / 0679769447
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.18 x 0.7 in (20.32 x 13.16 x 1.78 cm)
- Reading level 850
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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In the most moving and emotionally stirring fictional debut since Anna Quidlen's One True Thing or Mona Simpson's Anywhere But Here, Karin Cook gives us a novel about girls and their mothers, about sibling rivalry and kinship, about the mysterious tug between love and antagonism that lies at the heart of every family. The year Tilden turns twelve, her mother, Frances, falls in love and moves the family north. Soon the watchful, wise Tilden and her rebellious younger sister, Elizabeth, are navigating a new household amidst the awkward and alluring terrain of adolescence.
But when Frances suddenly discovers a lump in her breast, her daughters must confront the unpredictablility of her illness. With heartbreak and humor, these characters exposes a world of secrets and learn to survive in the face of life's contradictions. Funny, haunting, and unflinchingly truthful on every page, What Girls Learn is a book that will be read--and cherished-- for years to come.
But when Frances suddenly discovers a lump in her breast, her daughters must confront the unpredictablility of her illness. With heartbreak and humor, these characters exposes a world of secrets and learn to survive in the face of life's contradictions. Funny, haunting, and unflinchingly truthful on every page, What Girls Learn is a book that will be read--and cherished-- for years to come.
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- Booklist, 04/01/1998, Page 1310
- New York Times, 03/08/1998, Page 28