In the Family Way
A Novel
[United States] : [publisher not identified], [1999]
Format: Book
Description: 152 pages ; 22 cm
"Set in the early 1960s in Greenville, South Carolina, In the Family Way follows the story of ten-year-old Jeru Lamb, who is trying to come to terms with is brother's death. He's also trying to understand his mother's conversion to Christian Science, his father's literary ambitions (and recent calling as a "Waffle House mystic"), the racial landscape of the segregated South, and a new classmate from the wrong side of town who claims to be his half-sister. When his mother finds herself "in the family way" Jeru is left to wonder just what he might lose next." -- Publisher.
Subjects:
Christian Science -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Siblings -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Pregnant women -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Greenville (S.C.) -- Fiction.
Christian Science -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Siblings -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Pregnant women -- South Carolina -- Greenville -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Greenville (S.C.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9780615897141
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F Hays | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |