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Half a Heart

by Rosellen Brown
Carrington MacDuffie
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Half a Heart is the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980’s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter, born of Miriam’s passionate affair a generation ago with Eljay, a brilliant black professor at a Mississippi college, who has raised the child ever since. When Miriam introduces her daughter to the utterly white New England town where she summers, and to the Houston society which represents her own compromise of her sixties ideals, the results are complicated...

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Publisher: BBC Audiobooks America Edition: Unabridged

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  • ISBN: 9780792761365
  • File size: 405461 KB
  • Release date: February 17, 2009
  • Duration: 14:04:42

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  • ISBN: 9780792761365
  • File size: 2147484 KB
  • Release date: February 17, 2009
  • Duration: 14:04:37
  • Number of parts: 12
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Fiction Literature

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English

Half a Heart is the story of a former civil rights activist, Miriam Vener, who feels trapped in the comfortable white upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980’s. That life suddenly shatters with the appearance, after almost eighteen years, of Veronica (Ronnee), her biracial daughter, born of Miriam’s passionate affair a generation ago with Eljay, a brilliant black professor at a Mississippi college, who has raised the child ever since. When Miriam introduces her daughter to the utterly white New England town where she summers, and to the Houston society which represents her own compromise of her sixties ideals, the results are complicated...

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Fiction Literature