Soul kiss

By Shay Youngblood

Subjects: African Americans, African americans, fiction, Fiction, general, African American women, Romans, nouvelles, African American families, Familles noires américaines, Noires américaines, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, Bildungsromans, Noirs américains, Georgia, fiction

Description: Left by her mother in the care of her aunts at the age of seven, Mariah dreams of her mother's return and of the father she has never met, eventually beginning a correspondence with him that leads to a tumultuous visit when she turns fourteen. A first novel.