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3596788We Are All Welcome Herehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/we-are-all-welcome-here-9780345500069/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2995821/82e0a8fc-f2c2-4623-b78e-c598db8e69b8.jpg?v=638384737525830000112124MXNRandom House Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of <em>The Art of Mending</em> and <em>The Year of Pleasures</em>, has a rare talent for revealing her characters hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. <em>We Are All Welcome Here</em> features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.</strong></p><p>It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elviss birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequentlyand violentlyacross the state. But in Paige Dunns 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 fitwith the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.</p><p>Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are greatand relentless.</p><p>As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Diana s mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.</p>...3532779We Are All Welcome Here112124https://www.gandhi.com.mx/we-are-all-welcome-here-9780345500069/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2995821/82e0a8fc-f2c2-4623-b78e-c598db8e69b8.jpg?v=638384737525830000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20079780345500069_W3siaWQiOiJmYzUyZWRhNS1mMDI1LTQ2NzEtYmI4ZC0yNjJkYTU0YmJmMDMiLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjExNywiZGlzY291bnQiOjEyLCJzZWxsaW5nUHJpY2UiOjEwNSwiaW5jbHVkZXNUYXgiOnRydWUsInByaWNlVHlwZSI6Ildob2xlc2FsZSIsImN1cnJlbmN5IjoiTVhOIiwiZnJvbSI6IjIwMjUtMDItMDVUMDc6MDA6MDBaIiwicmVnaW9uIjoiTVgiLCJpc1ByZW9yZGVyIjpmYWxzZX1d9780345500069_<p><strong>Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of <em>The Art of Mending</em> and <em>The Year of Pleasures</em>, has a rare talent for revealing her characters hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. <em>We Are All Welcome Here</em> features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.</strong></p><p>It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elviss birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequentlyand violentlyacross the state. But in Paige Dunns 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 fitwith the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.</p><p>Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are greatand relentless.</p><p>As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Diana s mother, so mightily compromised, will end up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.</p>...9780345500069_Random House Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_ee4c81b7-ce3f-4993-be48-39412d00fcaa_9780345500069;9780345500069_9780345500069Elizabeth BergInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-1b91e8ed-431d-4701-823c-ffadb09ddef4.epub2007-04-17T00:00:00+00:00Random House Publishing Group