The Root Worker (edition 2001)

by Rainelle Burton

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Title:	The Root Worker
Authors:	Rainelle Burton
Info:	Overlook Hardcover (2001), Edition: 1st, Hardcover
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In Detroit in the 1960s, eleven-year-old Ellen tries to understand herself and her world as she is tormented by the nuns at her school; her mother, who believes Ellen is possessed; and the voodoo priestess who feeds her mother's fears.

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