Children of the world
a novel
by Martha Stephens
During the two days of the novel's present-time narrative, Margaret receives an unexpected phone call at the Juvenile Court where she works in Waycross, Georgia, and is faced with a tormenting decision, one that forces her to confront all the old griefs of her conflicted life.
Margaret examines - with perplexity and wonder - the vast and rich array of her memories: of her young girlhood, growing up in the white slums of Jacksonville with three retarded siblings, a slow-witted mother, and a beloved father who ultimately betrays her; of her removal from the squalor of Eighth Street by her wealthy maternal grandmother, who brings her at age twelve to the orderly and beautiful dairy farm she runs in Waycross.
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Fiction, Middle-aged women, Abused wives, Mother and childPlaces
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Children of the world: a novel
1994, Southern Methodist University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
0870743783 9780870743788
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