"Detroit (Mich.)" . . . . . . . "Bildungsromans" . "Bildungsromans"@en . . . . . . . "Domestic fiction" . "Domestic fiction"@en . . . . "Ellen, a girl growing up in 1960s Detroit, clings to a neighbor named Ellen, to balance her fear of the nuns at her school, her mother, and especially the local voodoo priestess known as the Root Worker." . "Ellen, a girl growing up in 1960s Detroit, clings to a neighbor named Ellen, to balance her fear of the nuns at her school, her mother, and especially the local voodoo priestess known as the Root Worker."@en . . "Fiction" . "Fiction"@en . . . . "The root worker" . "The root worker"@en . . .