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    This Place Is Still Beautiful
    This Place Is Still Beautiful
    This Place Is Still Beautiful
    Audiobook10 hours

    This Place Is Still Beautiful

    Written by XiXi Tian

    Narrated by Katharine Chin and Cindy Kay

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    With five starred reviews, this is an acclaimed novel about sisterhood, family, and the pernicious legacy of racism. Perfect for fans of Tahereh Mafi, Jandy Nelson, and Emily X.R. Pan, with crossover appeal for readers of Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.

    The Flanagan sisters are as different as they come. Seventeen-year-old Annalie is bubbly, sweet, and self-conscious, whereas nineteen-year-old Margaret is sharp and assertive. Margaret looks just like their mother, while Annalie passes for white and looks like the father who abandoned them years ago, leaving their Chinese immigrant mama to raise the girls alone in their small, predominantly white Midwestern town.

    When their house is vandalized with a shocking racial slur, Margaret rushes home from her summer internship in New York City. She expects outrage. Instead, her sister and mother would rather move on. Especially once Margaret’s own investigation begins to make members of their community uncomfortable.

    For Annalie, this was meant to be a summer of new possibilities, and she resents her sister’s sudden presence and insistence on drawing negative attention to their family. Meanwhile Margaret is infuriated with Annalie’s passive acceptance of what happened. For Margaret, the summer couldn’t possibly get worse, until she crosses paths with someone she swore she’d never see again: her first love, Rajiv Agarwal.

    As the sisters navigate this unexpected summer, an explosive secret threatens to break apart their relationship, once and for all.

    This Place Is Still Beautiful is a luminous, captivating story about identity, sisterhood, and how our hometowns are inextricably a part of who we are, even when we outgrow them.

    Editor's Note

    Moving YA debut…

    Tian’s moving YA debut explores the effects of racism and xenophobia through a coming-of-age lens. First-gen Chinese-American sisters Annalie and Margaret Flanagan have very different reactions to a hate crime, stirring up tensions in their home and predominantly white Illinois town. “This Place is Still Beautiful” reveals the complexities of navigating family expectations as well as the mixed-race immigrant experience.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateJun 7, 2022
    ISBN9780063086050
    This Place Is Still Beautiful
    Author

    XiXi Tian

    XiXi Tian was born in China and immigrated to the United States when she was a year old. She grew up in central Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in history, and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a writer, lawyer, avid reader, and lifelong Midwesterner no matter where she lives. Her debut novel, This Place Is Still Beautiful, was an Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick and received five starred reviews. You can visit her online at xixiwrites.com.

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