Half a Heart
- ISBN-10
- 0312278306
- ISBN-13
- 9780312278304
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-05-18
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Author
- Rosellen Brown
Description
When her biracial daughter appears suddenly after eighteen years searching for the mother who left her, former Civil Rights activist Miriam Vener begins a painful confrontation with her past. Reprint.
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