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Fathers and daughters -- Fiction

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Crazy Chinese Father, 2019

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Identifier: vm_2019spring_wan_xin.pdf
Overview

"This is an ironic comedy about a Chinese immigrant family. When a university offer arrives, conflict is heated up between the father and the daughter, right before her 18th birthday party. The story is inspired by personal experience." -- Abstract

Dates: 2019

If You Want to Know Why I’m Afraid of You, 2019

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Identifier: cw_2019fall_sneed_madeline kay.pdf
Overview "This is a novel about family, faith, and love. Set in the fictional town of Steinbeck, Texas, this story is told through the perspective of a daughter and a father, Emmy and Steve, through the course of a year following their estrangement after Emmy comes out as a lesbian. The novel explores the challenges of reconciling identity and place, faith and expectation, sacrifice and compromise. Ultimately, the novel is focused on love—romantic, familial, and spiritual—and what we must sacrifice...
Dates: 2019

In the broken places, 2011

 Item — Item 0113503037989: [Barcode: 0113503037989]
Overview

Across countries and continents, this is the story of a painfully shy girl trying to deal with the abandonment of her father by looking to find a place where she truly feels at home. Breaking through her father issues by letting herself get close to other

Dates: 2011