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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)

We Are All Welcome Here

Elizabeth Berg

Hardcover | Pages: 187 pages

Rating: 3.85 | 9890 Users | 946 Reviews

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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	:	Special 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 Reviews

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Domestic drama like this can easily sink into the melodramatic abyss. You've got a quadriplegic woman struggling to keep afloat financially; her husband left her when she came down with polio -- at nine months pregnant -- and the only help he offered was to get the baby adopted. A real peach of a guy.The daughter (Diana) narrates. She's thirteen at as the novel opens, so this is a coming of age story. Her relationship with her mother, with Peacie, the black woman who has cared for them both

A fictional account of teenage Dianna Dunn who lives in Tupelo, Mississippi in the 1960s with her mother Paige who because of polio is in an iron lung and a black caregiver who makes the living situation possible. According to the authors notes she was approached by someone to write this story based on their mothers life. Knowing this made it quite interesting even though its an easy to read and brief story. 3.5,stars Read for Retired Bookworms club. 12/2019

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, and

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Circle in the Fire," Mrs. Pritchard tries to engage Mrs. Cope in a conversation about "that woman that had that baby in that iron lung"(The Complete Stories 175). She justifies her freakish interest in the unusual birth and in the deaths of both mother and baby by mentioning that she and the woman were related --"sixth or seventh cousin[s] by marriage"(175). Later in that conversation, which can more aptly be described as "parallel talking," Mrs. Pritchard delivers one

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 listened to the audio book of this one a couple of years ago, which I highly recommend. It's read by the author, and she's quite a skilled dramatist. She really brings all the characters to life.

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Circle in the Fire," Mrs. Pritchard tries to engage Mrs. Cope in a conversation about "that woman that had that baby in that iron lung"(The Complete Stories 175). She justifies her freakish interest in the unusual birth and in the deaths of both mother and baby by mentioning that she and the woman were related --"sixth or seventh cousin[s] by marriage"(175). Later in that conversation, which can more aptly be described as "parallel talking," Mrs. Pritchard delivers one