Description |
232 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents |
It is the Southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop |
Summary |
Young, bright Taylor Greer leaves her poverty-stricken life in Kentucky and heads west, picking up an abandoned Native American baby girl whom she names Turtle and finds a new home in Tucson with Mattie, an old woman who takes in Central American refugees |
Analysis |
Fiction in English American writers, 1945- - Texts |
Notes |
Fiction in English. American writers,. 1945- - Texts (BNB/PRECIS) |
Subject |
Abandoned children -- Fiction.
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Genre/Form |
Fiction.
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ISBN |
1853810371 |
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