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03489aam a2200613 i 4500 001 B99142C29F0B11E59F0E139EDAD10320 003 SILO 005 20151210010036 008 150506s2015 nyu b 000 1 eng 010 $a 2015014273 020 $a 0425281043 (paperback) 020 $a 9780425281048 (paperback) 035 $a (OCoLC)900623563 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDXCP $d BDX $d BTCTA $d EYP $d OCLCF $d JIW $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk-en $a e-uk-en 050 00 $a PR9639.4.S923 $b S55 2015 082 00 $a 823/.92 $2 23 084 $a FIC049040 $a FIC045000 $a FIC049040 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Sussman, Fiona, $e author. 240 10 $a Shifting colours 245 10 $a Another woman's daughter / $c Fiona Sussman. 250 $a Berkley trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Berkley Books, $c 2015. 300 $a 293 pages ; $c 21 cm 500 $a "Previously published in the UK as Shifting Colours by Allison & Busby / May 2014" -- Verso title page. 520 $a "Set against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong... Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she's all too aware of her limitations. Nonetheless, she has found herself a comfortable corner: She has a job, can support her faraway family, and is raising her youngest child, Miriam. But as racial tensions explode, Celia's world shifts. Her employers decide to flee the political turmoil and move to England--and they ask to adopt Miriam and take her with them. Devastated at the prospect of losing her only daughter, yet unable to deny her child a safer and more promising future, Celia agrees, forever defining both their futures. As Celia fights against the shattering violence of her time, Miriam battles the quiet racism of England, struggling to find her place in a land to which she doesn't belong--until the call of her heritage inexorably draws her back to Africa to discover the truth behind her mother's choices and uncover a heartbreaking secret from long ago... READERS GUIDE INSIDE"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-288). 650 0 $a Birthmothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adoptees $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Racially mixed people $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South Africa $v Fiction. 651 0 $a England $v Fiction. 650 7 $a FICTION / Contemporary Women. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / Family Life. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a FICTION / African American / Historical. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Adoptees. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00797063 650 7 $a Birthmothers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00833291 650 7 $a Family secrets. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01737651 650 7 $a Racially mixed people. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086595 651 7 $a England. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01219920 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 655 0 $a Domestic fiction. 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 856 42 $3 Cover image $u 9780425281048.jpg 941 $a 3 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012013602.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010015726.0 952 $l GDPF771 $d 20170418112241.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B99142C29F0B11E59F0E139EDAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search