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" Trading dreams at midnight : "
Diane McKinney-Whetstone.
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BL
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973794
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b728164
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McKinney-Whetstone, Diane.
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Trading dreams at midnight : : a novel /\ Diane McKinney-Whetstone.
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Pymble, NSW ;New York :: HarperCollins e-books,, ©2008.
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1 online resource
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0061692727
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: 0061692735
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: 9780061692727
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: 9780061692734
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| Abstract
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Fifteen-year-old Neena and her younger sister, Tish, are certain their mother will return, flush with the promise of a new man. But Freeda's disappearance on the cold February morning in 1984 soon stretches from days to months and from months to years. Raised by their stern grandmother Nan, the two sisters quickly learn to look after themselves, fiercely reinventing their lives in the wake of Freeda's absence. Two decades later, at age thirty-six, Neena has moved away from Philadelphia and supports herself by blackmailing married men. When one of her stings goes terribly wrong, she decides to return to her childhood home. Unable to face her grandmother, Neena attempts to pull one last hustle on a prominent local lawyer. But when she learns that her younger sister has been hospitalized with pregnancy complications, she must decide how to come to terms with the woman who raised her. Reunited, Neena, Tish, and Nan each confronts her own memories of the past, and together reveal ...
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African American families, Fiction.
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African American women, Fiction.
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African Americans-- Pennsylvania-- Philadelphia, Fiction.
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African American families.
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African American women.
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African Americans.
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South Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.), Fiction.
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, South Philadelphia.
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Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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813/.54
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PS3563.C3825T7 2008eb
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