- Fiction, Family violence, Girls, African American families
Growing up in Brooklyn during the Vietnam War, a young woman witnesses the tearing apart of her family by anger, finances, and the draft, and when her parents fail to offer support and guidance, she struggles with society's mixed messages.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Jacqueline Woodson
- First published
- 1995
- Pages
- 121
- Publisher
- Plume, HarperCollins Publishers, Dutton
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780062360007
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