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River, cross my heart : a novel

The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of African Americans at the time.

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  • "The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of African Americans at the time."@en
  • "Oprah's book club choice. Circa 1925 a community faces emotional truth in Georgetown Washington D.C. as a girls tragic death effects the community."@en
  • "Breena Clarke's first novel takes place in Georgetown in 1925, where a large and close-knit African American community took shape beneath the shadow of segregation. At the center of the story is baby Clara, who is swallowed by the Potomac as her sister, Johnnie Mae, cools off in the brackish water. It's the only place the girls can find relief--they're banned from the new, clean swimming pool the white kids use. After Clara drowns, the river is never the same, and Johnnie Mae hovers on the edge of womanhood wondering if she'll be able to get past her guilt and emptiness."@en
  • "Alice and Willie Bynum, having moved from rural North Carolina to Georgetown in search of a better life for themselves and their children, must find a way to cope when their six-year-old daughter Clara drowns in the Potomac River."@en
  • "After the drowning death of their daughter in the Potomac River, a family leaves their rural North Carolina world in search of a better life among friends and relatives in Georgetown, as they grapple with their loss and struggle to move forward.--"
  • "The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time."
  • "The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time."@en
  • "A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title, that may also include a folder with miscellaneous notes, discussion questions, biographical information, and reading lists to assist book group discussion leaders."@en

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  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Domestic fiction"@en
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Powieść amerykańska"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en

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  • "Cheimarros zōēs"
  • "River, cross my heart : a novel"@en
  • "River, Cross My Heart"@en
  • "Schwimmen im dunklen Fluss : Roman"
  • "River, cross my heart : [a novel]"
  • "River, Cross my heart"@en
  • "River, cross my heart / S"
  • "Schwimmen im dunklen Fluss Roman"
  • "River, cross my heart"
  • "River, cross my heart"@en
  • "River, Cross my heart (Oprah book)"@en

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