Author

Publication

1995 - G.K. Hall & Co., Thorndike, Me, Maine

Language

English

Word Count

48,000 words, Guess

Page Count

192 pages

Identifiers

and 4 more

Classifications

  • DDC813/.54
  • LCCPS3557.I13917 S54 1995b

Description

Kaye Gibbons has long been known as an inventive and artful writer who can traverse the rocky terrain of intimate family experience with sure, graceful, and inspiring steps. Now, in a poignant tale of a child searching for a place in her mother's heart among the hopes and fears that are buried there, Gibbons moves us once again. In Hattie Barnes, a child grows up by coming to terms with two worlds - the private one inside her house, where her mother is unpredictable, elusive, adoring, and adored, and the public one of her small North Carolina town, in which her mother is politely known as "the Barnes woman with all the problems."

First Sentence

Had I known my mother was being given electroconvulsive therapy while I was dressing for school on eight consecutive Monday morning, I do not think I could have buttoned my blouses or tied my shoes or located my homework.

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Other Editions

  • Sights unseenG.K. Hall & Co.1995-01-01

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