Orphea Proud
By: Sharon Dennis Wyeth.
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Family life -- Fiction.; Poetry -- Fiction.; Lesbians -- Fiction.; Artists -- Fiction.; Entertainers -- Fiction.; Racially mixed people -- Fiction.; Queens (New York, N.Y.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: While reciting her poetry at a club in Queens, New York, seventeen-year-old Orphea recounts her childhood in Pennsylvania, leaving after her parents and the girl she loves die, and learning about her family and herself while living with her great-aunts on a Virginia mountaintop.
Notes: 14 & up.