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Belinda's Rings
Belinda's Rings
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Publisher:
NeWest Press
DRM:
Watermark
Publication Year:
2013
ISBN-13: 9781927063286
Description:
&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>Half-Asian&#10;teenager Grace (but she&#8217;d prefer it if you called her &#8220;Gray&#8221; instead) is dead&#10;set on becoming a marine biologist rather than being anything like her mother,&#10;Belinda. She&#8217;d leave that role to her sister Jess instead, who&#8217;s a&#10;supermon-in-the-making.</p><p>Belinda herself is somewhat obsessed&#10;as well, by crop circle books and imagery, and abruptly runs out on her family,&#10;flying across the Atlantic in order to study the real things in the English&#10;countryside. Grace and her sister are left alone to take care of the house,&#10;their rapidly-deteriorating stepfather and their peculiar brother,&#10;Squid.</p><p><i>Belinda&#8217;s Rings</i> links together the&#10;coming of age of a young biracial woman with the mid-life crisis of her mother.&#10;With warmth, kindness and a boisterous sense of humour, Corinna Chong&#10;introduces us to two lovable and thoroughly original female protagonists:&#10;persnickety, precocious Grace, and her impractical, impulsive mother&#10;Belinda&#8212;very different women who nevertheless persistently circle back into&#10;each other&#8217;s hearts.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p>Half-Asian&#10;teenager Grace (but she&#8217;d prefer it if you called her &#8220;Gray&#8221; instead) is dead&#10;set on becoming a marine biologist rather than being anything like her mother,&#10;Belinda. She&#8217;d leave that role to her sister Jess instead, who&#8217;s a&#10;supermon-in-the-making.</p><p>Belinda herself is somewhat obsessed&#10;as well, by crop circle books and imagery, and abruptly runs out on her family,&#10;flying across the Atlantic in order to study the real things in the English&#10;countryside. Grace and her sister are left alone to take care of the house,&#10;their rapidly-deteriorating stepfather and their peculiar brother,&#10;Squid.</p><p><i>Belinda&#8217;s Rings</i> links together the&#10;coming of age of a young biracial woman with the mid-life crisis of her mother.&#10;With warmth, kindness and a boisterous sense of humour, Corinna Chong&#10;introduces us to two lovable and thoroughly original female protagonists:&#10;persnickety, precocious Grace, and her impractical, impulsive mother&#10;Belinda&#8212;very different women who nevertheless persistently circle back into&#10;each other&#8217;s hearts.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;