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The house that Lou built

Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.

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Main Author:	Respicio, Mae (Author)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2018]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Home > Juvenile fiction. Family life > California > Juvenile fiction. Filipino Americans > Juvenile fiction. Building > Juvenile fiction. Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction. California > Juvenile fiction. Coming-of-age fiction > Juvenile.
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Summary:	Longing for an escape from her extended Filipino family, Lou plans to build a tiny house on land she inherited from her father, but difficulties quickly arise.
Physical Description:	231 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:	9781524717940 1524717940
Author Notes:	Mae Respicio grew up in Northern California and has great memories of spending childhood summers dancing in a Filipino folk-dance troupe. Mae is a past recipient of a PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship. She's been a writer-in-residence at Hedgebrook and Atlantic Center for the Arts and has published a variety of musings on parenthood. She lives with her family in the San Francisco Bay Area, not far from the ocean and the redwoods. This is her first novel.