The girl from Charnelle
Subtitle: a novel
By: K.L. Cook.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
Subjects: Working class families -- Fiction.; Teenage girls -- Fiction.; Texas, West -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas - a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brothers and outwardly maintains a sense of calm. But her balance is upset and the repercussions of her family's struggles are revealed when a chance encounter with a married man leads Laura into a complicated relationship for which she is unprepared ...