There's No Reason to Get Romantic (AMERICAN DRAGONS, HarperCollins)
YA Fiction Ann Slater YA Fiction Ann Slater

There's No Reason to Get Romantic (AMERICAN DRAGONS, HarperCollins)

My grandmother crossed the mountains, my mother the ocean—I want to know where my journey is. If I leave behind climbing the Golden Gate Bridge at night and camping on the beach and weekly trips to Berkeley to see The Rocky Horror Picture Show, where will I go? But then why should I go, why is it that my mother and grandmother are always wanting me to be something I am not? I stand by the door for a few more minutes, watching my grandmother slowly, gently count her beads of bone, and wonder if it’s really possible that I’m related by blood to this tiny woman murmuring in a language I do not know.

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Gypsy Cante (New World Writing)
Memoir Ann Slater Memoir Ann Slater

Gypsy Cante (New World Writing)

Nestled in her silk scarves, my mother always kept a bar of Myrurgia’s Maja soap, wrapped in the dis­tinc­tive red-and-black paper with a fla­menco dancer on the label. Because my father—an American my mother met in med­ical school—had been sta­tioned at the Rota naval base, near Cadiz and the Strait of Gibraltar, I was born in Spain and we stayed there for two years…

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