Behind the mountains / Edwidge Danticat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danticat, Edwidge, 1969-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

First person fiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haitian Americans--Juvenile fiction.

Haitian Americans.

Haiti--Fiction.

Haiti.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)--Fiction.

Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.).

Haitian Americans--Fiction.

Immigrants--Fiction.

Emigration and immigration--Fiction.

Diaries--Fiction.

New York (State)--New York--Brooklyn.

Genre:

Fiction.

Diaries.

Juvenile works.

Narratives.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 166 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Orchard Books, 2002.

Summary:

Writing in the notebook which her teacher gave her, thirteen-year-old Celiane describes life with her mother and brother in Haiti as well as her experiences in Brooklyn after the family finally immigrates there to be reunited with her father.

Notes:

"First edition, October 2002"

"Jacket design by Elizabeth B. Parisi"

Américas Award, Honorable Mention, 2002

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

ISBN:

0439372992 :

9780439372992

043937300X

9780439373005

OCLC:

48675654

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