Berg, Elizabeth
We are all welcome here a novel Elizabeth Berg. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2006. - xiii, 187 p. ; Hardback 25 cm.
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently--and violently--across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit--with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.
140006161X (acid-free paper) 9781400061617 (acid-free paper)
2005048956
Poliomyelitis--Patients
Civil rights movements
Mothers and daughters
African Americans
Race relations
Caregivers
Girls
Tupelo (Miss.)
Ber 2
We are all welcome here a novel Elizabeth Berg. - 1st ed. - New York : Random House, c2006. - xiii, 187 p. ; Hardback 25 cm.
It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently--and violently--across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit--with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.
140006161X (acid-free paper) 9781400061617 (acid-free paper)
2005048956
Poliomyelitis--Patients
Civil rights movements
Mothers and daughters
African Americans
Race relations
Caregivers
Girls
Tupelo (Miss.)
Ber 2