We Are All Welcome Here
Fourteen years ago, pregnant Paige Dunn was felled by a severe case of polio; she delivered her baby from an iron lung. Left alone after her husband abandoned and divorced her, she raised her daughter, Diana, alone. Diana, now 13, has taken over the night shift of her mother's round-the-clock...
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Fourteen years ago, pregnant Paige Dunn was felled by a severe case of polio; she delivered her baby from an iron lung. Left alone after her husband abandoned and divorced her, she raised her daughter, Diana, alone. Diana, now 13, has taken over the night shift of her mother's round-the-clock nursing care. Out of this virtually shut-in situation, Elizabeth Berg has knitted a tight fiction about domestic strife and loyalty; racism; and the long aftermath of disease.
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780345500069 (0345500067)
Publish date: April 17th 2007
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Historical Fiction,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
This is a wonderful reading. The long stretch at the beginning in which it's just the narrator speaking gets a little monotonous, but after other characters come in, it kept my interest completely. I was intrigued at the end to discover that it was an author reading, because the many different voi...
I listened to the audio book of this one a couple of years ago, which I highly recommend. It's read by the author, and she's quite a skilled dramatist. She really brings all the characters to life.
15 years ago
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