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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.

Main Author: Respicio, Mae (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Wendy Lamb Books, [2018]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Coming of age > Juvenile fiction.
Home > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > California > Juvenile fiction.
Filipino Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Building > Juvenile fiction.
Moving, Household > Juvenile fiction.
California > Juvenile fiction.
Bildungsromans > Juvenile.
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.

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