Visiting Miss Pierce
By: Pat Derby.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Old age -- Fiction.; Nursing homes -- Fiction.; Adoption -- Fiction.
Description: Fourteen-year-old Barry, visiting an eighty-three-year-old woman in a nursing home and encouraging her to delve into her distant past, finds the project affects him deeply in his situation as an adopted child.