Into the Beautiful North

In the novel, the global internet allowed the young characters to look up things they needed to have translated, and it allowed them to look for family members they'd lost track of.

Two years later, she’d been hunting through the library’s castoff $1.00 sale table when she glanced at their computers and ventured to access the Internet. The librarian helped her search the phrase “creachin’ the bouf.” The best translation they could come up with was “I am a fool for the light comedic opera.” She liked to think that’s what Zemaski meant, though she knew it wasn’t. pg. 192

“I look for my father,” she said in English." pg. 318