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008 230307s2023 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2023009537
020 _a9780063304024
_q(trade paperback)
040 _aDLC
_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
042 _apcc
082 0 4 _aFIC L439 2023
100 1 _aLeav, Lang,
245 1 0 _aOthers were emeralds :
_ba novel /
_cLang Leav
250 _aFirst Edition.
264 1 _aNew York City :
_bHarper Perennial,
_c[2023]
300 _a274 pages ;
_c21 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"The daughter of Cambodian refugees, Ai grew up in the small Australian town of Whitlam populated by Asian immigrants who once fled war-torn countries to rebuild their shattered lives. It is now the late 90's and despite their parent's harrowing past, Ai and her tightknit group of school friends: charismatic Brigitte, sweet, endearing Bowie, shy, inscrutable Tin, and politically minded Sying, lead seemingly ordinary lives, far removed from the unimaginable horrors suffered by their parents. But that carefree innocence is shattered in their last year of school when Ai and her friends encounter a pair of racist men whose cruel acts of intimidation spiral into senseless violence. Grappling with the magnitude of her grief at such a young age, Ai leaves Whitlam for college before her trauma has a chance to fully resolve. In her second year of college Ai suffers a mental health crisis, driving her back home to Whitlam, a place she swore never to return. There, she reconnects with those she left behind and together they are compelled to look back on the tragedy that shaped their adolescence and examine the role they may have unwittingly played"--
_cProvided by publisher.
650 _aTeenage girls
_vFiction
650 _aCambodian Americans
_vFiction
650 _aImmigrants
_vFiction
650 _aRacism
_vFiction
655 7 _aBildungsromans.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aNovels.
_2lcgft
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aLeav, Lang.
_tOthers were emeralds
_dNew York City : Harper Perennial, 2023
_z9780063304048
_w(DLC) 2023009538
942 _2ddc
_cFIC
_n0
999 _c17231
_d17231