Almost innocent
By: by Sheila Bosworth.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1984
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
Subjects: New Orleans (La.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Set in New Orleans and evocative of the sights and sounds that any native will recognize, Bosworth's novel traces the process by which the main character, Clay-Lee, attempts to reconstruct her mother's life through stories and memory. In the process of facing herself through her mother's life, Clay-Lee finds redemption for her perceived guilt in her mother's death. Her penitence restores her innocence and allows her to shape her own life and move on.