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This Is Graceanne's Book: A Novel

by P.L. Whitney · 1999

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The coming of age of two poor children in 1960s Mississippi, one a dynamic girl, the other her awed brother who narrates. The novel describes an ice-carving experiment to turn the baby Jesus into a "Negro," as well as their system of childhood justice which sets aside the weak as "dead kids."

Genre
historical fiction
Audience
adult

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