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Originally Posted by doreenjoy
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 1943 -- a coming-of-age story about a young girl in New York. There are references to sexual matters, but sexual activities are not described in the book. I recommend this one highly. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Tree_...rooklyn_(novel) |
I was going to suggest this as well - a very good choice.
Unless they've already read this, Maxime Hong Kingston's
The Woman Warrior might be a good choice as well. I liked it a lot and I'm pretty sure students with a chinese background will get even more out of it than I did. (I'm german, so I'm fairly certain that quite a few cultural references and in jokes were lost on me.) The book does discuss sexual slavery though.