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    <title>Mona in the promised land</title>
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  <genre authority="gsafd">Bildungsromans.</genre>
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    <publisher>Knopf</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1996</dateIssued>
    <edition>1st ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Unhappy with her own ethnic group, Mona Chang, a Chinese-American, decides to become a Jew. After all, if one has to live as a minority, choose the best. A witty look at ethnicity, multiculturalism and the melting pot. By the author of Typical American.</abstract>
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  <note>Also issued online.</note>
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  <classification authority="lcc">PS 3560  J51m 1996</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="20">813.54</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0679445897</identifier>
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