Change baby / June Spence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spence, June, 1969-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--North Carolina--Fiction.

Women.

North Carolina.

Conflict of generations--Fiction.

Conflict of generations.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

North Carolina--Fiction.

Genre:

Domestic fiction.

Fiction.

Novels.

Physical Description:

230 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Riverhead Books, 2004.

Summary:

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 beings 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."

ISBN:

1573222860

OCLC:

54529919