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Before women had wings

1997
After her father commits suicide, young Bird Jackson moves with her alcoholic mother and older sister to a trailer park where she discovers Jesus and Miss Zora, a mysterious black woman who teaches Bird about dignity and forgiveness.

On beauty

a novel
2005
Englishman Howard Belsey struggles to revive his love for his African-American wife as he works abroad at an American college, but when a disastrous affair is revealed, Howard learns his actions may have dire consequences on every member of his family.

Raise high the roof beam, carpenters ; and, Seymour, an introduction

1991
Two stories containing episodes from the life of the Glass family, with Seymour Glass, the oldest child, as the central character.

Lost boys

1992
The Fletcher family moves to Steuben, North Carolina, thinking it will be the right place for them. However, when their eight-year-old son Stevie becomes very withdrawn, they discover that he is being stalked and that other boys have mysteriously disappeared from the town.

Treasure box

a novel
1996
Wealthy recluse Quentin Fears meets the woman of his dreams on a rare outing to a party and the relationship seems perfect until he learns she holds the key to a dirty family secret and only he can stop her from unleashing an ageless malevolence upon the world.

Places to look for a mother

2002
Lucy Taylor, the second of two Taylor daughters, struggles to find her own way in the world after realizing, at a young age, that her mother Miriam is unable to provide her with the guidance she wants and needs.

Cowkind

a novel
1996
Bossy and the rest of the cows become worried about their futures when Farmer Bob begins behaving oddly, and his son Gerry, who helps around the farm, is having his own struggles with the issues facing his generation in the late 1960s.

Our house in the last world

a novel
1983
Hector Santinio, the son of Cuban immigrants, grows up in New York City in the 1950s, struggling to understand his cultural identity and to come to terms with his high-living father.

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