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1 online resource (153 pages) |
| Series |
American lives |
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American lives.
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| Contents |
Learning the language -- Beneath the surface -- An almost perfect circle -- Slider -- First time -- The clothespin -- Punker -- Altar boys -- Spirit -- An endless retelling -- My father, in some small corner of memory -- Translucent -- Diorama -- An entire life story, instead of a loaf of bread -- The first dream -- A collective forgetting -- Yellow -- Human chain -- Sleep -- Great bridge -- The same expression -- The object of my affection -- The unknowable future -- Brutal pupil -- Almost morning -- The other boy -- Suspension of disbelief -- Birthmark -- Hello again -- Flat bottom -- The painting -- Waiting for sentences -- Short life -- Silver plastic suit -- The idea of weight -- Dog -- Pensacola, by way of New Orleans -- Promises -- Everything and nothing -- Just in case -- Return -- The sky -- The wrong bus -- Homecoming -- Ritual -- Another homecoming -- Old Nags Head Road |
| Summary |
Against the backdrop of his teenage sister's car accidentin which a dump truck filled with sand slammed into the small car carrying her and her friendsJon Pineda chronicles his sister Rica's sudden transformation from a vibrant high school cheerleader to a girl wheelchair bound and unable to talk. For the next five years of her life, her only ability to communicate was through her rudimentary use of sign language. Lyrical in its approach and unflinching in its honesty, Sleep in Me is a heartrending memoir of the coming-of-age of a boy haunted by a family tragedy |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Pineda, Jon, 1971- -- Childhood and youth
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Pineda, Jon, 1971- -- Family
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| SUBJECT |
Pineda, Jon, 1971- fast |
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Authors, American -- 21st century -- Biography
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Filipino Americans -- Biography
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Filipino American families.
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Siblings -- United States
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Sisters -- United States -- Biography
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Traffic accident victims -- United States -- Biography
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Childhood and youth of a person
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Authors, American
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Siblings
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Families
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Filipino American families
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Filipino Americans
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Sisters
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Traffic accident victims
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Great Bridge (Chesapeake, Va.) -- Biography
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| Subject |
United States
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Virginia -- Chesapeake -- Great Bridge
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780803233553 |
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0803233558 |
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1283050846 |
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9781283050845 |
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9786613050847 |
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6613050849 |
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