Fifth born
By: Zelda Lockhart.
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Child sexual abuse victims -- Fiction; African American families -- Fiction; African American girls -- Fiction; Problem families -- Fiction; Saint Louis (Mo.) -- Fiction; Mississippi -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "When Odessa Blackburn is three years old, she sees her grandmother for the last time, and so begins her story as the fifth born of eight children in a troubled family. Molested by her father, Odessa is also the sole witness to a murder he commits."--Jacket.