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Here we are now / Jasmine Warga.

Warga, Jasmine, (author.).

Summary:

While her mother is out of town, sixteen-year-old Taliah accompanies her estranged father--a famous rock star who one day appears on her doorstep--to Oak Falls, Indiana, to meet his dying father and the rest of his family, and on the way, Taliah learns about how her parents met and separated, her mother's experience as a Jordanian immigrant, and her own ability to accept change and open up to others.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780062324702
  • ISBN: 0062324705
  • Physical Description: 292 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]
Subject: Fathers and daughters > Fiction.
Musicians > Fiction.
Rock music > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Secrets > Fiction.
Arab Americans > Fiction.
Fathers and daughters > Juvenile fiction.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Family / Multigenerational.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Romance / Contemporary.
YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Travel & Transportation / Car & Road Trips.
Genre: Young adult fiction.

Available copies

  • 14 of 14 copies available at Evergreen Indiana.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 14 total copies.
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