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Meet the Authors
ALA Unit/Subunit: ALA,UNO
Meeting Type: Meet the Authors
Cost: Included with full conference and exhibits only registration.
Open/Closed: Open
Darling Girl
DG is five the first time her mother goes away. She’ll go away again and again before DG understands why: mental illness and a manipulating husband. Traveling through the fifties and sixties, from apartheid South Africa to the capitals of Europe, the family live like dancing bears in a traveling circus with her father as the ringmaster. DG is on a journey from innocence to experience; to the realization that her mother’s illness isn’t the family's only problem; it's not even the main one.