When JFK was my father

By Amy Gordon

Subjects: Parent and child, fiction, Girls, Fiction, Self-perception, fiction, Children's fiction, Boarding schools, fiction, Boarding schools, Schools, fiction, Family, New York Times reviewed, Parent and child, Schools, Self-perception

Description: Feeling neglected by her father in Brazil and her mother in Washington, D.C., Georgia Hughes tries to cope with life at a boarding school in Connecticut by imagining relationships with John Kennedy and Miss Beard, the ghost of the former headmistress of the school.