Title: When did you stop loving me?
Subtitle: a novel
First published: 2004
Description: "When Did You Stop Loving Me is the story of Angela, a young girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn. One day Angela goes to school and returns home to find her mother gone. Her magician father, Teddo, left to raise Angela alone, insists on keeping Melanie's disappearance shrouded in mystery, but later Angela wryly observes, "My father was a magician, but my mother was the real Houdini."" "Veronica Chambers has written a story about a young girl's struggle to navigate her way through her family's web of love, loss, and magic. As Angela tries to piece her world back together and figure out why her mother has abandoned her, she's left to ponder the soul-shattering question: When did you stop loving me?"--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Maternal deprivation, African American families, Fiction, Fathers and daughters, Motherless families, African American girls, Runaway wives
Places: Bronx (New York, N.Y.)
LC classification: PS3553.H2634 W47 2004