We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel

We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel

Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her charactersâ€™ hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, 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 Elvisâ€™s birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequentlyâ€“and violentlyâ€“across the state. But in Paige Dunnâ€™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 fitâ€“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 othersâ€™. 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 greatâ€“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 Dianaâ€™s mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.
Country USA
Brand Ballantine Books
Manufacturer Random House Publishing Group
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780812971002
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2007-04-17
UnitCount 1
UPCs 884807759107
EANs 9780812971002

Country	USA
Brand	Ballantine Books
Manufacturer	Random House Publishing Group
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780812971002
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2007-04-17
UnitCount	1
UPCs	884807759107
EANs	9780812971002

We Are All Welcome Here: A Novel

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