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Tigers, not daughters, Samantha Mabry

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Tigers, not daughters, Samantha Mabry
Language
eng
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Literary text for sound recordings
fiction
Main title
Tigers, not daughters
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Oclc number
1232438765
Responsibility statement
Samantha Mabry
Summary
The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood. In the summer after her senior year of high school, Ana, the oldest sister, falls to her death from her bedroom window. A year later, her three younger sisters, Jessica, Iridian, and Rosa, are still consumed by grief and haunted by their sister's memory. Their dream of leaving Southtown now seems out of reach. But then strange things start happening around the house: mysterious laughter, mysterious shadows, mysterious writing on the walls. The sisters begin to wonder if Ana really is haunting them, trying to send them a message, and what exactly she's trying to say
Target audience
adolescent
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