01866cam a2200313 i 4500 341188087 TxAuBib 20180328120000.0 170620s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017019595 9780374305314 17.99 0374305315 17.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Dellaira, Ava. In search of us [BOOK] / Ava Dellaira. New York, NY : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018. 403 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier This sweeping multi-generational love story introduces readers to mother-and-daughter pair Marilyn and Angie. To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. But Marilyn was once young, too. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. But Angie's never met him, and Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her home in New Mexico with her ex-boyfriend, Sam. Along the way, she uncovers some hard truths about herself, her mother, and what truly happened to her father. Provided by publisher. 880L Lexile. 20180328. Identity (Philosophical concept) Young adult fiction. Love Young adult fiction. Multiracial people Young adult fiction. Mothers and daughters Young adult fiction. Single-parent families Young adult fiction.