000			01703nam a22003377i 4500
005			20261016202631.0
008			261016s1997 xx ||||| |||||||| 1|eng d
020			_a9780679448280
020			_a0679448284
035			_a(KOHALIB)isbn-9780679448280
040			_aKOHALIB _beng _erda _cKOHALIB
082	0	4	_a813.54 _223
100	1		_aCook, Karin.
245	1	0	_aWhat girls learn : _ba novel / _cKarin Cook.
264		1	_aNew York : _bPantheon Books, _c1997.
300			_a304 pages
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
520			_aWhat 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.
590			_aInventory: Single copy, entry 613; recorded quantity 1; damaged N/A
650		4	_aTerminally Ill
650		4	_aBreast
650		4	_aCancer
650		4	_aMothers and Daughters
650		4	_aAdolescence
650		4	_aFiction
650		4	_aPatients
650		4	_aSisters
942			_cBOOK _2ddc
999			_c600 _d600