Fresh air
By: Charlotte Vale Allen.
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Don Mills, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Fresh Air Fund -- Fiction.; Women -- Connecticut -- Fiction.; African American girls -- Fiction.; Female friendship -- Fiction.; Mothers -- Death -- Fiction.; Recluses -- Fiction.; Connecticut -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Lucinda Hunter has been a virtual recluse in a Connecticut farmhouse for 27 years. Katanya Taylor is a nine-year old from Harlem who is staying with a host family for two weeks and meets Lucinda while admiring her garden. Lucinda's acquaintance with Katanya prompts the older woman to reexamine her life.