- Fiction, Grandmothers, People with mental disabilities, Parent and child
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and intimate.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 200
- Publisher
- Dell Yearling, Xin lei chu ban she, Holt
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- Chinese, German, English
- ISBN
- 9780613228022
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“Folks around Saitter don't understand why parents would name their daughter Tiger.”
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