Title: Gray baby
Description: Clifton has grown up in rural Virginia with the memory of his African American father being beaten to death by policemen, causing his white mother to slip into alcoholism and depression, but after befriending an old man who listens to his problems, Clifton finally feels less alone in the world.
Subjects: Kidnapping, Murder, Racially mixed people, Virginia, Single-parent families, Fiction, Grandfathers, Country life, Alcoholism, Children's fiction, Racially mixed people, fiction, Single-parent families, fiction, Alcoholism, fiction, Grandparents, fiction, Kidnapping, fiction, Murder, fiction, Country life, fiction, Virginia, fiction
Places: Virginia