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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b10152693.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "I: White lies -- Geography -- Popularity -- Current events -- II: Directions -- Euphemism -- Privacy -- Cores -- III: Blasphemy -- Home remedies -- Beauty -- Heat -- Relative -- IV: Spelling -- Gift -- Primary care -- Duty -- V: Independence -- Cooperation -- Home economics -- Procession -- Memory.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "x, 304 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "What girls learn.".
- catalog identifier "0679448284 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "What girls learn.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Pantheon Books,".
- catalog relation "What girls learn.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Breast Cancer Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Breast Cancer Patients Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog subject "Mothers and daughters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PS3553.O55385 W48 1997".
- catalog subject "Sisters Fiction.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I: White lies -- Geography -- Popularity -- Current events -- II: Directions -- Euphemism -- Privacy -- Cores -- III: Blasphemy -- Home remedies -- Beauty -- Heat -- Relative -- IV: Spelling -- Gift -- Primary care -- Duty -- V: Independence -- Cooperation -- Home economics -- Procession -- Memory.".
- catalog title "What girls learn : a novel / Karin Cook.".
- catalog type "Bildungsromane. gsafd".
- catalog type "Bildungsromans. gsafd".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction. lcsh".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Medical novels. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".