Title: Orphea Proud
First published: 2004
Description: While reciting her poetry at a club in Queens, New York, seventeen-year-old Orphea recounts her childhood in Pennsylvania, leaving after her parents and the girl she loves die, and learning about her family and herself while living with her great-aunts on a Virginia mountaintop.
Subjects: Entertainers, Family life, Racially mixed people, Poetry, Fiction, Lesbians, Artists, Children's fiction, Homosexuality, fiction, New york (n.y.), fiction, Lesbians, fiction, Artists, fiction, Fiction, general
Places: N.Y.) Queens (New York, Queens (New York, N.Y.)
LC classification: PZ7.W9746 Or 2004