Baby of the Family

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Imprint: Mariner Books (May 31, 1991)
Fiction, Paperback, 265 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780156101509

Description of Baby of the Family


An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
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