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Laura Lane McNeal
Sunday July 13, 2014 08:00 PM EDT
Cost: No cost info
From the venue:
Laura Lane McNeal will talk and read from her book Dollbaby. A coming-of-age debut novel set in the summer of 1964, introduces Ibby Bell who, after her father dies, is sent to live with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, in New Orleans. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook Queenie and her quick-witted daughter Dollbaby take Ibby in hand. With their help, Ibby learns begins to understand the mysteries of her own family which is filled with tragedy hidden behind closed doors, learns the ways” of the south