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The Weight of Water
- 234 pages · about 4 hours
- First published 2012
- 3 editions
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1 About this book
Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.
- Race relations
- Immigrants
- Alienation (Social psychology)
- Children's fiction
- Mothers and daughters
- Ethnic relations
- Young adult fiction
- England
2 About Sarah Crossan
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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