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Claiming Georgia Tate
Format:
Book
Title:
Claiming Georgia Tate
ISBN:
9780763623395
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
Cambridge, MA : Candlewick Press, 2005.
Physical Description:
196 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:
Twelve-year-old Georgia Tate feels loved and safe living with Nana and Granddaddy, until her sexually abusive father tries to win her custody.

"Georgia Tate Jamison never knew her mother, and what she knows of her daddy from their vacation together isn't good. Her grandparents have raised her ever since she was a baby, but they would never, ever tell her the secret that her best friend, Ginger, finally lets spill. Could Georgia Tate be the last person in Ripley, Mississippi, to learn the truth about her own mama's death? When Nana suddenly passes away, Georgia Tate's beloved preacher granddaddy decides that a father and daughter belong together and sends her to live with hers in Jacksonville. The only problem is that some men, like Granddaddy Tate, were always meant to be fathers--and some men, like Rayford Jamison, were never meant to be. In Gigi Amateau's extraordinary first novel, a betrayed and tragically abused young woman indomitably pulls toward joy--and in spite of it all, gives thanks for the good rains that cleanse the soul." -- Provided by publisher
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