Useful Gifts.

Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and daring, confusion and fear, the eleven interrelated stories in Useful Gifts explore what Ruthie knows. The youngest child of profoundly deaf parents living in Manhattan in the 1940s Charged with the mystery of childhood, with curiosity and da...

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Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University of Georgia Press 1989.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents
  • 1. Arden Street
  • What My Mother Knows
  • In the Shadow of the Boardwalk
  • My Second Favorite
  • Useful Gifts
  • Fort Arden
  • Peola and Petunia
  • Talking Mama-Losh'n
  • Plastic Flowers
  • My Father's Darling
  • Begin the Beguine
  • 2. Retracings
  • Relics of Stars.