Berg, Elizabeth.

We are all welcome here : a novel / Elizabeth Berg. - Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed. - New York : Ballantine, 2007, c2006. - xiii, 206 p. ; 21 cm.

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.

ISBN: 0812971000 (pbk.) : $13.95 9780812971002

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Fiction.
Caregivers--Fiction.
Civil rights movements--Fiction.
Girls--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Poliomyelitis--Patients--Fiction.
Race relations--Fiction.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Tupelo (Miss.)--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.