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Bitter in the mouth a novel

When a personal tragedy compels a young woman to return to Boiling Springs, North Carolina, she gets to know a mother she never knew and uncovers a startling story of a life, a family.

Main Author: Truong, Monique T. D.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Random House, c2010.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Young women > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
North Carolina > Fiction.
Psychological fiction. > North Carolina
Domestic fiction > North Carolina.
Summary: When a personal tragedy compels a young woman to return to Boiling Springs, North Carolina, she gets to know a mother she never knew and uncovers a startling story of a life, a family.
Physical Description: 282 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 9781400069088 (alk. paper)
1400069084 (alk. paper)
Author Notes: Monique Truong was born in Saigon and currently lives in New York City. Her first novel, The Book of Salt , was a New York Times Notable Book. It won the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the 2003 Bard Fiction Prize, the Stonewall Book Award-Barbara Gittings Literature Award, and the 7th Annual Asian American Literary Award, and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award and Britain's Guardian First Book Award. She is the recipient of the PEN American Robert Bingham Fellowship, and was awarded the Hodder Fellowship at Princeton for 2007-2008.

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