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Half a heartRosellen Brown

Half a heart

Rosellen Brown
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Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable white middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston during the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a civil rights activist. Hot tempered, sensitive, manipulative and deeply hurt at her mother's disappearance from her life, Ronnee has been raised by her father, a formerly brilliant college professor who forbade her to see her white mother. Half a Heart charts the emotionally fraught terrain of the…

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9 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1999
    Farrar Straus Giroux · 9780374167721
  • Other · English · 2001
    Compass Press · 575 pages · 9781587240171
  • Other · English · 2001
    Farrar, Straus, and Giroux · 402 pages · 9780374440138
  • Other · English · 2001
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 9781466804029
  • Other · English · 2001
    Picador USA/Farrar, Straus and Giroux · 402 pages · 9780312278304
  • Other · English · 2000
    Farrar, Straus & Giroux · 418 pages · 9780374933845
FictionBirthmothersTeenage girlsRacially mixed peopleMothers and daughtersWomen civil rights workersIllegitimate childrenLarge type books