TY - SER
KW - Roman Catholics
KW - teenagers
KW - Polish Americans
KW - orphans
KW - foster care
KW - adoption
KW - Mexican Americans
AU - Lee McClain
AB - Linda Delgado, an orphan at 14, works in her aunt Elba’s Mexican restaurant in rural Arizona. When Elba suffers a ministroke, Linda migrates to Pittsburgh to nest with her aunt Pat, host of <em>Cooking from Cans</em>, a tri-state hit. Linda settles in quickly with aunt Pat, her husband, and their dynamic brood: one bitter biological teenager and six other kids, each a domestic or foreign adoptee.
C1 - 2010s
C3 - Allegheny County; Pittsburgh; Strip District; Bloomfield
C4 - Children’s; Young Adult
CY - Tarrytown, NY
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N2 - Linda Delgado, an orphan at 14, works in her aunt Elba’s Mexican restaurant in rural Arizona. When Elba suffers a ministroke, Linda migrates to Pittsburgh to nest with her aunt Pat, host of <em>Cooking from Cans</em>, a tri-state hit. Linda settles in quickly with aunt Pat, her husband, and their dynamic brood: one bitter biological teenager and six other kids, each a domestic or foreign adoptee.
PB - Marshall Cavendish
PP - Tarrytown, NY
PY - 2011
RN - Lee Tobin McClain (1960- ) is a writer and teacher in Greensburg, Westmoreland County. She is professor of English at Seton Hill University's Master of Fine Arts in Popular Fiction Program.
EP - 190 p.
TI - Sizzle
ER -