Bibliograph

Gone crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia

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Gone crazy in Alabama, Rita Williams-Garcia

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Gone crazy in Alabama

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Oclc number

902122300

Responsibility statement

Rita Williams-Garcia

Summary

It's the summer of 1969, and Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit Big Ma and her eighty-two-year-old mother, Ma Charles. Pa can't remind them enough that the South's not like Brooklyn, and that you can't get more southern than Alabama. Across the field, through the pines, and over the creek is the Trotter home, where Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter, lives. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years, each determined to hold on to her version of the truth. Dramatic Vonetta plays middleman to the two warring, elderly sisters, while Delphine struggles against her to bring the family together. As Delphine hears about family history that she never knew existed, she learns of a hurt that happened many years ago--which maybe can't be mended. But when a tragedy comes to the farm in Alabama, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible

Target audience

juvenile

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