Billie girl
Subtitle: a novel
By: Vickie Weaver
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Leapfrog Press; Distributed in the United States by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Teaticket, Mass; St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781935248125
Subjects: Fiction; Adopted children; Black humor; Transvestites; Euthanasia
Description: "Abandoned as in infant because of her incessant crying, Billie Girl is raised by two women who are brothers. Her life, a gender-bending puzzle filled with dark humor, is a series of encounters with strangers who struggle along with what they are given: a bigamist husband, a long-lost daughter named after a car, a lesbian preacher's wife, a platonic second husband who loved her adoptive father. Twin themes of sexuality and euthanasia run throughout. In a journey from hard-dirt Georgia farm to end-of-life nursing home, Billie Girl comes to understand the mercy of killing."--Publisher's description.
Notes: "A LeapLit book"