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Abelove, Joan

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American author Joan Abelove writes primarily character-driven teen novels. Her background as a cultural anthropologist studying in Peru influenced her first novel about a young Indian girl in the Peruvian jungle. Abelove's stories are thought-provoking as she writes with authority about cultural differences. Her second book, featuring a dying Jewish mother and a daughter's struggles to cope, is undergirded with the believable characters and a sense of hope present in all of her work. Start with: Go and Come Back
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Abelove, Joan
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American author Joan Abelove writes primarily character-driven teen novels. Her background as a cultural anthropologist studying in Peru influenced her first novel about a young Indian girl in the Peruvian jungle. Abelove's stories are thought-provoking as she writes with authority about cultural differences. Her second book, featuring a dying Jewish mother and a daughter's struggles to cope, is undergirded with the believable characters and a sense of hope present in all of her work. Start with: Go and Come Back
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