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Swan Place

ISBN: 0452284147

Title: Swan Place

Author: Augusta Trobaugh

KDL Description:

After a series of family tragedies leaves fourteen-year-old Dove, her younger sister Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their seventeen-year-old stepmother, Crystal, Dove and Crystal risk everything to keep the family together, fleeing to a secret refuge called Swan Place, where they meet a group of women who change their lives in profound ways.

Amazon Description:

The author of Sophie and the Rising Sun “streamlines her rich Southern style and creates a narrative as delicate as a line drawing” (USA Today).

A series of family tragedies leaves fourteen-year-old Dove, her younger sister, Molly, and their baby brother, Little Ellis, in the care of their stepmother, seventeen-year-old Crystal. Born into a hardscrabble world of poverty and abandonment, Dove must take on much of the responsibility for her siblings after Crystal turns to their Bible-thumping Aunt Bett for help.

When Molly’s deadbeat blood father threatens to bring a custody suit, Crystal and Dove flee with the children to a secret refuge called Swan Place, where they meet a group of devout black women who transform their lives in unusual and profound ways.