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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.

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