Goodbye, Geraldine

Goodbye, Geraldine
ISBN-10
0910941289
ISBN-13
9780910941280
Category
Adult children of dysfunctional families
Pages
294
Language
English
Published
2001
Publisher
Jgc/United Pub Corps
Author
Robert J. Morgan

Description

A nine-year-old boy's story of growing up in Duluth whose mother died when he was three years old. The story of one family and every family, of a woman whose strength sustains her grandchildren through alcoholism, desertion, and death; and of a young man who fights his way to a new life of hope, peace, and love--P. [4] of cover.

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