A hypnotic, lyrical debut novel about a young black girl in the deep south who comes to confront the realities of sex, race, disease, and death, by a writer of extraordinary emotional depth. "A profoundly raw and gripping read," (The Baltimore Sun) Olympia Vernon's fearless and wildly original debut
Eden : a novel
โ Scribed by Kleine, Andrea, 1970- author
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Synopsis
262 pages ; 22 cm
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262 pages ; 22 cm
262 pages ; 22 cm