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Baby of the family / Tina McElroy Ansa.
Born in 1949 in a private blacks-only hospital in rural Georgia, Lena is the third child and longed-for first daughter of Nellie and Jonah, who own the local bar and liquor store. Considered "special" because she was born with a caul, believed to bestow sight into the future, Lena learns as a toddler that her special powers have more to do with the past: she can see and talk with ghosts. Despite her extraordinary talent, Lena is most memorable for the ordinariness of her everyday life: her first friendships, her years at school, her observations of her parents' sometimes stormy relationship, her grief at her grandmother's death.
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- ISBN: 015110431X :
- ISBN: 9780151104314
- Physical Description: v, 265 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, c1989.
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| Additional Physical Form available Note: | Also issued online. |
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| Subject: | Mulberry (Ga. : Imaginary place) > Fiction. African American families > Fiction. Georgia > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Bildungsromans. Domestic fiction. |
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