The Book of Dead Birds

Description:

Having accidentally killed her mother's birds throughout her childhood, Ava Sing Lo volunteers to help rescue poisoned birds, while Helen, Ava's mother, remembers the time she was forced into prostitution on a segregated American army base.

subjects: Fiction,  Korean American women,  Racially mixed people,  Women conservationists,  Effect of water pollution on,  Mothers and daughters,  Birds,  Fiction, coming of age,  San diego (calif.), fiction,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Fiction, family life, general,  Domestic fiction

Places: San Diego (Calif.),  Salton Sea (Calif.)