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Loading... Rocking the Babies: A Novel (original 1994; edition 1995)by Linda Raymond
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Author Linda Raymond writes an incredible story flowing with an uninterrupted desire to just keep reading. She draws the reader in and sits them down to listen. “Rocking the babies” is a delightful read. Raymond's debut has some good writing, good dialogue, and good anecdotes--but not enough to make a good book. Raymond moves gracefully between past and present and offers unusually accomplished characterizations. Though she self-consciously includes a politically correct mix of ethnic backgrounds and ends her story too abruptly, her compelling, uncomplicated prose and imaginative, credible narrative marks her as a writer with a future.
In a hospital in Dayton, Ohio, two black women volunteers rock and feed premature infants. Both are drawn to an anonymous sickly girl, but only one knows the infant is her own granddaughter. The problems begin when the other gets the idea of adopting her. A first novel. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
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