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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9781573222860
ISBN number: 0641684355
Label: Riverhead Hardcover
Manufacturer: Riverhead Hardcover
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 240
Printing Date: September 09, 2004
Publishing house: Riverhead Hardcover
Release Date: September 09, 2004
Sale Popularity Level: 1738264
Studio: Riverhead Hardcover
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An award-winning writer's debut novel about a young woman's return to her Southern roots and to the secrets of who she is.
Avie Goss is a change baby-a baby born late in her mother's life, almost a generation after the births of her two siblings. When her mother nearly dies in a house fire, Avie returns home to the South she abandoned after college. There, she tends to her ailing mother and begins to unravel the story of who she is-and to uncover a different picture of a way of life that has all but vanished. Slowly, as she makes sense of her family's legacy, she begins to build a new life for herself in a landscape with which she must come to terms.
June Spence's astonishing talents as a literary stylist, which were so highly praised on the publication of her story collection, Missing Women and Others, are stunningly exhibited in this impressive debut novel. As Larry Brown wrote about her stories, 'In her beautiful sentences June Spence writes with knowledge and intelligence, with wit and insight, and a generous helping of compassion.'
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A wonderful book. Beautifully written, moving and emotionally rewarding, Change Baby follows the lives of a southern family from generation to generation. Stunning for a very first novel and a great one for a book club - but perhaps even more enjoyable when savoured alone. If you want rich characters, great prose and emotional depth, this is the book for you.
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Change Baby is alot about finding yourself and where you fit in your family, especially when the family leads you to believe one thing about yourself and you find that life isn't really all that you thought it was. Avie Goss returns to home to take care of mother, mostly because her older sister says it is her responsibility because she just can't do it. No matter, Avie is just looking for a reason to get away from her current situation and taking care of mother seems as good of reason as any to return home. Avie immerses herself in the care of her mother and in the process finds that her family is not all that she was lead to believe and as the mysteries of her family unfolds so does Avie as she finally finds her place.
It has been a while since I have read a book that I was so engrossed in from cover to cover that I actually resented having to put it down for real life stuff.
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