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In rural Kentucky in 1955, Serilda Collins, single mother of four lively girls, discovers that her orphaned nephew is being subjected to brutality.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2003Farrar Straus Giroux · 198 pages · 9780374310028
- Other · English · 2003Thorndike Press · 208 pages · 9780786258130
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