num_pages: 257
description: Adopted by a wealthy, bed-confined white woman, Shelton, a young African-American boy, is crippled by an accident and taken in by the wily Minou and his family, who offer him guidance in a race-torn world and the secret of his birth. Reprint.
language: English
title: The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur
titlecomplete: The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 52
publisher: Avon Books