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Jewel

by Bret Lott

FictionChildren with mental disabilitiesMothers and daughtersFamilyFamiliesDomestic fictionLarge type booksMississippi, fiction

In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel, her husband Leston, and their five children learn to cope with their last-born child, Brenda Kay, born mentally retarded in 1943.

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Book data: Open Library