Tina McElroy Ansa
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Three sexy, screwed-up Southern sisters come home to Mulberry to put their totally self-centered mother, Mudear, in her grave. We meet the Lovejoy women as they gather in their mother's house to lay her and the demons she has dumped on them to rest. Mudear Lovejoy was the kind of mother who ruled her house and raised her daughters with an iron hand even after her "change". Betty is her oldest daughter, big-boned and strong, the only one who remembers...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
All her life, Lena McPherson, 45, has been using her supernatural powers to help people in Mulberry, Georgia, yet never has she been able to use them for herself, say to find love. One day that changes when a man who is visible only to her enters her life. But a spirit's love is impermanent, one of the disadvantages of falling in love with a ghost.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Born in 1949 in a private blacks-only hospital in rural Georgia, Lena is the third child and longed-for first daughter of Nellie and Jonah, who own the local bar and liquor store. Considered "special" because she was born with a caul, believed to bestow sight into the future, Lena learns as a toddler that her special powers have more to do with the past: she can see and talk with ghosts. Despite her extraordinary talent, Lena is most memorable for...