Title: Baby of the family
First published: 1989
Description: Born in 1949 in a private blacks-only hospital in rural Georgia, Lena is the third child and longed-for first daughter of Nellie and Jonah, who own the local bar and liquor store. Considered "special" because she was born with a caul, believed to bestow sight into the future, Lena learns as a toddler that her special powers have more to do with the past: she can see and talk with ghosts. Despite her extraordinary talent, Lena is most memorable for the ordinariness of her everyday life: her first friendships, her years at school, her observations of her parents' sometimes stormy relationship, her grief at her grandmother's death.
Subjects: Fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, occult & supernatural, Southern states, fiction, Mulberry (Ga. : Imaginary place), African American families
LC classification: PS3551.N64 B34 1989