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It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently - and violently - across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effContinue

It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently - and violently - across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit - with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.

Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others'. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are great - and relentless.

As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Diana's mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.

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  • We Are All Welcome Here By Elizabeth Berg

    Paige Dunn is smart, beautiful, loving, and, not incidentally, paralyzed from the neck down. Stricken with polio in the 1950s, she gave birth to her daughter, Diana, in an iron lung, and shortly afterward, her husband left her. Paige is as honest wit ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 10 Sep 2010

  • Bookreporter.com - WE ARE ALL WELCOME HERE by Elizabeth Berg

    Elizabeth Berg's latest novel, WE ARE ALL WELCOME HERE, is set in Tupelo, Mississippi, during the Freedom Summer of 1964 --- the town where Elvis was born and where racial tensions are simmering just barely below the surface. During this summer we me ... (read full critics)

    bookreporter published on Sat, 28 Aug 2010

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  • Edition: Unab MP3 / Library
  • ISBN-10: 1593358903
  • ISBN-13: 9781593358907
  • Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Lib Ed
  • Pub date: Apr 04, 2006
  • Dimensions: 190 mm x 140 mm x 20 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Paperback and Hardcover
  • In other languages: other languages 한국 책
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