Cook, Karin.
What girls learn : a novel / Karin Cook. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c1997. - 304 p. ; 22 cm.
A death from cancer as told by the victim's daughter. 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.
0679448284 (alk. paper)
Sisters--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Breast--Cancer--Patients--Fiction.
Bildungsromane
Domestic fiction.
Medical novels.
What girls learn : a novel / Karin Cook. - 1st ed. - New York : Pantheon Books, c1997. - 304 p. ; 22 cm.
A death from cancer as told by the victim's daughter. 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.
0679448284 (alk. paper)
Sisters--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Breast--Cancer--Patients--Fiction.
Bildungsromane
Domestic fiction.
Medical novels.