We Are All Welcome Here
A Novel
New York : Random House, [2006]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xiii, 187 pages ; 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.
Subjects:
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Caregivers -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Tupelo (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Poliomyelitis -- Patients -- Fiction.
Civil rights movements -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Fiction.
Race relations -- Fiction.
Caregivers -- Fiction.
Girls -- Fiction.
Tupelo (Miss.) -- Fiction.
Target Audience: 700L
ISBN:
140006161X