Swan Place
After a series of family tragedies leaves fourteen-year-old Dove, her younger sister Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their seventeen-year-old stepmother, Crystal, Dove and Crystal risk everything to keep the family together, fleeing to a secret refuge called Swan Place, where they meet a group of women who change their lives in profound ways. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.
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The author of Sophie and the Rising Sun "streamlines her rich Southern style and creates a narrative as delicate as a line drawing" (USA Today) A series of family tragedies leaves fourteen-year-old Dove, her younger sister, Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their stepmother, seventeen-year-old Crystal. Born into a hardscrabble world of poverty and abandonment, Dove must take on much of the responsibility for her siblings after Crystal turns to their Bible-thumping Aunt Bett for help. When Molly's deadbeat blood father threatens to bring a custody suit, Crystal and Dove flee with the children to a secret refuge called Swan Place, where they meet a group of devout Black women who transform their lives in unusual and profound ways.
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