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Woods, Brenda

The Red Rose Box

136 pp. | Putnam | May, 2002 | Trade ISBN 0-399-23702-X $$16.99
(3) 4-6 It's 1953, and a dazzling tenth-birthday gift inspires narrator Leah and her Louisiana­based African-American family to visit wealthy Aunt Olivia in racially integrated Los Angeles. Leah embraces freedom and urbanity, but when tragedy forces her and her sister to become Olivia's permanent charges, she reconsiders her humble origins. This naturalistic novel has the pace of a memoir and the pull of a good story.
Reviewer: Nell Beram

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