num_pages: 276
description: An evocative, delicately comic story of a girl’s coming of age. From the moment of her birth in a rural black hospital in Georgia, Lena McPherson is recognized as a special child, with the power to see ghosts and predict the future. Named a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times.
language: English
title: Baby of the Family
titlecomplete: Baby of the Family
genres: Ghosts, African American, Coming Of Age, Southern, Magical Realism, Fiction, Race, Fantasy, Paranormal, Speculative Fiction
ratings_count: 872
places: Georgia
series: Mulberry, Georgia
publisher: Mariner Books