01703nam a22003377i 4500 20261016202631.0 261016s1997 xx ||||| |||||||| 1|eng d 9780679448280 0679448284 (KOHALIB)isbn-9780679448280 KOHALIB eng rda KOHALIB 813.54 23 Cook, Karin. What girls learn : a novel / Karin Cook. New York : Pantheon Books, 1997. 304 pages text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants readers with its humor and insight even as it breaks their hearts. In this emotional novel, Tilden, an adolescent girl, & her slightly younger sister move with their mother to suburban Long Island, where Tilden has social problems & her mother discovers she is dying of cancer. The narrator is 12-year-old Tilden of Atlanta, one of two daughters of a single mother. The story begins on a happy note as the mother finds a man and the trio move north to Long Island. Tragedy strikes when the mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. A first novel. Inventory: Single copy, entry 613; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A Terminally Ill Breast Cancer Mothers and Daughters Adolescence Fiction Patients Sisters BOOK ddc 600 600 0 0 ddc 0 0 FIC MAIN MAIN 2026-10-16 0 813.54 COO LIB02043 2026-10-16 20:26:31 2026-10-16 BOOK