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Subject(s)

• African American children—Fiction [Browse]
• African American teenage girls—Fiction [Browse]
• Brothers and sisters—Fiction [Browse]
• Motherless families—Fiction [Browse]
• African American families—Mississippi—Fiction [Browse]
• Rural poor—Mississippi—Fiction [Browse]
• Hurricane Katrina, 2005—Fiction [Browse]
• Gulf Coast (Miss.)—Fiction [Browse]

Related name

• OverDrive, Inc [Browse]

Library of Congress genre

• Fiction [Browse]
• Novels [Browse]

Summary note

Enduring a hardscrabble existence as the children of alcoholic and absent parents, four siblings from a coastal Mississippi town prepare their meager stores for the arrival of Hurricane Katrina while struggling with such challenges as a teen pregnancy and a dying litter of prize pups.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Bloomsbury USA 2011.

ISBN

9781608196272 (electronic bk.)