Carolyn Ferrell
Author
Language
English
Description
"Fern seeks refuge from her mother's pill-popping and boyfriends via Soul Train; Gwin finds salvation in the music of Prince much to her congregation's dismay and Jesenia, miles ahead of her classmates at her gifted and talented high school, is a brainy and precocious enigma. None of this matters to Boss Man, the monster who abducts them and holds them captive in a dilapidated house in Queens. On the night they are finally rescued, throngs line the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Stories on life in the black ghetto. The story, Miracle Answer, is on an abandoned girl's search for a father figure, in the title story a woman is infected with aids by her stepfather, while Proper Library is on a 14-year-old boy who must look after the family's younger children.