Swan Place
Subtitle: a novel
By: Augusta Trobaugh.
Publisher: Dutton
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Custody of children -- Fiction; African American women -- Fiction; Female friendship -- Fiction; Teenage girls -- Fiction; Stepmothers -- Fiction; Southern States -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Fourteen-year-old Dove, born into a hardscrabble world of poverty and abandonment, forced to become wise beyond her years by life's tough breaks. A series of family tragedies leaves Dove, her younger sister, Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their stepmother, seventeen-year-old Crystal. Overwhelmed by raising three orphaned children on her own, Crystal turns to their Bible-thumping Aunt Bett, and Dove herself takes on much of the responsibility for looking after her siblings.

But the fragile new household is disrupted when Molly's deadbeat blood father threatens to bring a custody suit. Determined to keep the family together, Crystal and Dove flee with the children to a secret refuge called Swan Place. It is here that the emerging woman Dove meets a group of devout Black women who transform her life - and the lives of her family - in unusual and profound ways."--BOOK JACKET.