Half a heart
Racially mixed children
Upper class families
Birthmothers
Literature, modern, history and criticism, 20th century
Illegitimate children
New england, fiction
Racially mixed people
Texas, fiction
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Identity (Psychology)
Mothers and daughters
Teenage girls
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
Large type books
Fiction
Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable white middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston during the 1980s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter born in Mississippi in the sixties when Miriam was a …
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