Raven
ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN END TO BROKEN PROMISES....
Her Mama made it painfully clear that she wished Raven had never been born. But even after she was sent to live with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, humiliating secrets lurked -- and threatened to dash forever Raven's dream of a true home....
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- Pocket Books |
- 192 pages |
- ISBN 9781451637168 |
- February 2011
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I woke to the sound of knocking, but I wasn't sure if it was someone at our door. People pounded on the walls in this apartment building at all times of the day or night. The knocking grew sharper, more frenzied, and then I heard my uncle Reuben's voice.
"Raven, damn it, wake up. Raven!"
He hit the door so hard I thought his fist had gone through. I reached for my robe and got up quickly.
"Mama!" I called.
I ground the sleep from my eyes and listened. I thought I remembered hearing her come home, but the nights were so mixed up and confused in my memory, I wasn't sure. "Mama?"
Uncle Reuben pounded on the...
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