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Original Title:	We Are All Welcome Here
ISBN:	140006161X (ISBN13: 9781400061617)
Edition Language:	English
Setting:	United States of America Mississippi(United States)

We Are All Welcome Here Hardcover | Pages: 187 pages

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Elizabeth Berg, bestselling author of The Art of Mending and The Year of Pleasures, has a rare talent for revealing her characters' hearts and minds in a manner that makes us empathize completely. Her new novel, We Are All Welcome Here, features three women, each struggling against overwhelming odds for her own kind of freedom. It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently-and violently-across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, there are more immediate concerns. Challenged by the effects of the polio she contracted during her last month of pregnancy, Paige is nonetheless determined to live as normal a life as possible and to raise her daughter, Diana, in the way she sees fit-with the support of her tough-talking black caregiver, Peacie. Diana is trying in her own fashion to live a normal life. As a fourteen-year-old, she wants to make money for clothes and magazines, to slough off the authority of her mother and Peacie, to figure out the puzzle that is boys, and to escape the oppressiveness she sees everywhere in her small town. What she can never escape, however, is the way her life is markedly different from others'. Nor can she escape her ongoing responsibility to assist in caring for her mother. Paige Dunn is attractive, charming, intelligent, and lively, but her needs are great-and relentless. As the summer unfolds, hate and adversity will visit this modest home. Despite the difficulties thrust upon them, each of the women will find her own path to independence, understanding, and peace. And Diana's mother, so mightily compromised, willend up giving her daughter an extraordinary gift few parents could match.

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Title	:	We Are All Welcome Here
Author	:	Elizabeth Berg
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 187 pages
Published	:	April 4th 2006 by Random House (NY) (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Womens Fiction. Chick Lit

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3 starsA quadriplegic woman, in an iron lung, is being cared for by her 14 yr old daughter and a part time housekeeper. Each of the three have an individual destiny they are trying to achieve. That is the premise of the book. Berg, as she so often does, builds a compelling story around this premise. It is based on the true story of one of her fans, however changed to create its own story. Berg, in the fashion of Anne Tyler, Anita Shreve or Anna Quindlin, can take the everyday circumstances of

I wish I had the words to describe Elizabeth Berg's wonderful writing so that everyone would run out and read her. This is not chick-lit, it is more like relationship fiction. Her prose is so descriptive, warm and encompassing yet simple and true. I feel drawn into each character, their feelings, experiences and their relationships. Yet it is not dramatic over the top stuff. The characters are ordinary yet extraordinary. I have read virtually all her novels but somehow missed this one. She was

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Circle in the Fire," Mrs. Pritchard tries to engage Mrs. Cope in a conversation about "that woman that had that baby in that iron lung"(The Complete Stories 175). She justifies her freakish interest in the unusual birth and in the deaths of both mother and baby by mentioning that she and the woman were related --"sixth or seventh cousin[s] by marriage"(175). Later in that conversation, which can more aptly be described as "parallel talking," Mrs. Pritchard delivers one

If you haven't read an Elizabeth Berg book, you should do so! This is the third book I have read by this author this year, and this one was just as good and as completely different than any of the others. The book is loosely based on a real person, Paige Dunn, who contracted polio while pregnant with her daughter, Diana. During the summer of 1964, Diana learns that she needs her mother just as much as her mother needs Diana. Once again, Ms. Berg writes an amazing story filled with characters who

The Author's Note and the first bit of this book were brilliant -- the end a bit far-fetched, but hopeful. The bits in between okay, but a little like one of those movies on the Hallmark channel. But it was a quick read, written in a memoir style, and an interesting tie in (in my mind) to my recent reading of The Help. It also called to mind An American Summer, by Frank Deford, which I read a while back and liked. I think I'd hoped for more, but at least was able to get some bits and pieces out

I haven't read an Elizabeth Berg book in a very long time. I had forgotten that I liked her writing style. She writes good characters. I enjoyed this quick read, and really liked the main character, Diana. She's a young girl whose Mom contracted polio when she was pregnant with her. The polio left her mother a quadriplegic, and she was determined to raise her daughter with the help of her black maid Peacie. It's a coming of age story set in the 1960s during the civil rights movement. I would

In Flannery O'Connor's "A Circle in the Fire," Mrs. Pritchard tries to engage Mrs. Cope in a conversation about "that woman that had that baby in that iron lung"(The Complete Stories 175). She justifies her freakish interest in the unusual birth and in the deaths of both mother and baby by mentioning that she and the woman were related --"sixth or seventh cousin[s] by marriage"(175). Later in that conversation, which can more aptly be described as "parallel talking," Mrs. Pritchard delivers one