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The book of dead birds

Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother's birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned by agricultural runoff. Helen, her mother, has been haunted by her past for decades. As a young girl in Korea, Helen was drawn into prostitution on a segregated American army base. Several brutal years passed before a young white American soldier married her and brought her to California. When she gave birth to a black baby, her new husband quickly abandoned her, and she was left to fend for herself and her daughter in a foreign country. With great beauty and lyricism, The Book of Dead Birds captures a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her mother's terrible past while she searches for her own place in the world.

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  • "Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother's birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned by agricultural runoff. Helen, her mother, has been haunted by her past for decades. As a young girl in Korea, Helen was drawn into prostitution on a segregated American army base. Several brutal years passed before a young white American soldier married her and brought her to California. When she gave birth to a black baby, her new husband quickly abandoned her, and she was left to fend for herself and her daughter in a foreign country. With great beauty and lyricism, The Book of Dead Birds captures a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her mother's terrible past while she searches for her own place in the world."@en
  • "Having accidentally killed her mother's birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava's mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base."
  • "Een jonge vrouw verlaat San Diego om mee te werken aan een groot milieuproject. Tijdens haar werk overdenkt zij het verleden van haar moeder, een voormalig prostituee, en haar eigen plek in de wereld."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "The book of dead birds"@en
  • "The book of dead birds"
  • "The book of dead birds : a novel"
  • "El libro de los pájaros muertos"@es
  • "Het boek van de dode vogels"
  • "The book of dead birds a novel"@en
  • "Mijn moeders vleugels"

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