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In the small Southern town where she has spent her entire life, twelve‑year‑old Letty feels trapped by her widowed father’s new relationship. Fueled by resentment, she hurries into adulthood, determined to stop her father from remarrying and to find her own place in a changing family.
Letty’s struggle touches on the challenges of growing up alone, the complexities of single‑parent households, and the emotional distance that can arise when a child’s life is rearranged by a parental remarriage.
First publish date: 1987
Genre: Family & Domestic Fiction/Parenthood & Family Fiction
Authors: Mary Reeves Mahoney
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