My Jim (13 page)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
NANCY RAWLES enjoys teaching history to children. Her novel
Love Like Gumbo
won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation, and her novel
Crawfish
Dreams
was selected for the Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Program. She lives in Seattle.
ALSO BY NANCY RAWLES
Crawfish Dreams
Love Like Gumbo
Copyright © 2005 by Nancy Rawles
Author interview copyright © 2005 by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc. Reader’s Group Guide copyright © 2006 by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rawles, Nancy, 1958–
My Jim: a novel / Nancy Rawles.—1st ed.
1. African American families—Fiction. 2. Reminiscing in old age—Fiction.
3. African American women—Fiction. 4. Grandparent and child—Fiction.
5. Loss (Psychology)—Fiction. 6. Teenage girls—Fiction.
7. Women slaves—Fiction. 8. Older women—Fiction.
9. Freedmen—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.A844M9 2004
813’.54—dc22 2004011606
ILLUSTRATIONS BY TINA HOGGATT
eISBN: 978-0-307-42134-0
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