Elizabeth Berg
Hardcover | Pages: 187 pages Rating: 3.85 | 9890 Users | 946 Reviews
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| Original Title: | We Are All Welcome Here |
| ISBN: | 140006161X (ISBN13: 9781400061617) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America Mississippi(United States) |
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Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters' hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom.It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently-and violently-across the state. But in Paige Dunn's 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 fit-with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie.
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 great-and relentless.
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, willend up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.
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| Title | : | We Are All Welcome Here |
| Author | : | Elizabeth Berg |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 187 pages |
| Published | : | April 4th 2006 by Random House (NY) (first published 2006) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit |
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Ratings: 3.85 From 9890 Users | 946 ReviewsCritique About Books We Are All Welcome Here
Being from Chicago, Elizabeth Berg is a familiar and much loved author. This book, inspired by a true story, was winsome, poignant and inspired. The story centers on a mother, who is a "quad" due to polio and gave birth to her daughter while in an iron lung, and her relationship with her daughter. Set against a backdrop of civil rights struggles in 1964, themes of freedom, voice and acceptance move through the narrative -- giving breath to a story sure to cause one to squirm, pause, reflect, andI got the suggestion for this book from an Amazon "Customers who bought this book also bought ..." I believe the suggestion was on the Amazon page for The Help, which I loved and was looking for suggestions of similar books. Elizabeth Berg is always good for a nice, sweet story, one that is light but doesn't insult your intelligence. (Ditto Ann Tyler. They may, in fact, be the same person.) This book, based on a true story suggested to Berg by a reader, is about a woman who contracts polio while
A quick and excellent read.I have read several of her books and this story may be my favorite so far.A unique story line and engrossing characters set in interesting times for America.Loved the fact that this was a fictionalized account of a real story that was submitted to her by a fan.Plus who doesnt like a story that involves Elvis!
I wish I had the words to describe Elizabeth Berg's wonderful writing so that everyone would run out and read her. This is not chick-lit, it is more like relationship fiction. Her prose is so descriptive, warm and encompassing yet simple and true. I feel drawn into each character, their feelings, experiences and their relationships. Yet it is not dramatic over the top stuff. The characters are ordinary yet extraordinary. I have read virtually all her novels but somehow missed this one. She was
Elizabeth Berg is incapable of writing a bad book. How I wish she were my neighbor.
Choosing to live is an act of defiance; a form of heroism.This was a quick, easy-to-read, heart warming story. I wont give the synopsis of the story, you can read the little blurb up ⬆there.Based on a true story...one a fan shared with Berg about her own mother and begged her to write about.I love the resilience of a fiercely loving mom with severe disabilities. I love that she shows up strong and constant for her daughter when parenting might have seemed impossible. Dad leaves...too hard. Mom
I like all of Elizabeth Berg's stuff. She has a way of describing simple things that make them glimmer somehow. The story is told from a 13 year-old girl's point of view, which she does a terrific job of, and takes place during the civil rights movement. Her mom contracts polio just before her birth, leaving her paralyzed, and her husband leaves her when he finds out she'll always be a quadriplegic. She is an incredibly strong woman, and so is her main caregiver, an African-American woman. There
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