false 237231 14 <i>Elizabeth Berg</i>, bestselling author of <i>The Art of Mending</i> and <i>The Year of Pleasures</i>, has a rare talent for revealing her characters' hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, <i>We Are All Welcome Here</i>, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently and violently across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit- with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie. Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are great and relentless. As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Diana's mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match. 894987 4 4 2006 We Are All Welcome Here total:1598|5:273|4:708|3:510|2:95|1:12| 1598 5929 2071 235 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 5 2 false Mon Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Wed Apr 30 14:09:02 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 15:18:04 -0700 2008 more...]]> 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 4 1 false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 07:31:51 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 03 07:35:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 5 1 false Tue May 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 14:43:54 -0700 2009 Tue May 26 10:17:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 4 1 false Mon Jul 06 06:19:37 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 18:20:53 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 06:19:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 2 1 false Thu Aug 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 19:25:53 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 09:48:56 -0700 2009 O...more...]]> 237231 140006161X 9781400061617 1425 207 3.71 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172990012m/237231.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237231.We_Are_All_Welcome_Here 5 0 false Mon May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Thu Mar 19 17:14:54 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 10 05:03:58 -0700 2009
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