Nancy Rawles

• Nov-1997
• / General Fiction
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In South Central Los Angeles in 1978, Grace Broussard, the youngest member of a Creole family transplanted from Louisiana, seeks to distance herself from her family through a ten point plan designed to shock them, but the ghost of her father interfer...

• Mar-2003
• / General Fiction
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For forty years Camille Broussard has cooked for other people. As a young bride she moved from Louisiana to Los Angeles and settled in the thriving community of Watts; but many of her hopes went up in the flames of the 1965 riots. Now it’s 1984--...

• Feb-2006
• / General Fiction
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A “compelling, eloquently written” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel that reimagines The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn’s Jim from the perspective of his wife, Sadie. “Rawles covers territory Twain did not. . . . As heart-wrenching a personal h...