Book 2005

Swimming to America

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Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 2005

Fiction
Self-perception
Immigrants
Identity
Mothers and daughters
Immigrants -- Fiction.
Children's fiction
Rivers, fiction

Eighth grader Linda Berati struggles to understand who she is within the context of her mother's secrecy about the family background, her discomfort with her old girlfriends, her involvement with the family problems of her Cuban-American friend Ramon, and an opportunity to attend a school for "free spirits" like herself.