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The heartbreaking portrait of a large, rural southern family’s attempt to grapple with their mother’s desperate decision to make her newborn son into the daughter she will never have When the seventh child of the Peace family, named Perfect, turns eight, her mother Emma Jean tells her... read more
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Emma Jean has wished for a girl for so long, but after having six boys looks like her chances are slim to none. Then along comes baby #7 which happens to also be a boy. This is when Emma Jean takes matters into her own hands. She invents Perfect.
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- Perfect: 7th child of Emma Jean and Gus
- Authorly: Second child of Emma Jean and Gus
- King Solomon: Perfect's brother
- Mister: Sixth child of Emma Jean and Gus
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- Gus
- Woody
- Gracie
- Olivia
- Momma
- Mamie Cunningham
- W. C.
- Louise
- Walter
- Lawd
- Claude Lovejoy
- Frank
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Gus stood beside the living room window, waiting for the annual spring rains.
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- Daniel Black (Author)
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Page Count: 341
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- Dewey: 813.6
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