The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foste..., Kaye Gibbons
The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foste..., Kaye Gibbons
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The Life All Around Me By Ellen Foster

Author: Kaye Gibbons

Narrator: Kaye Gibbons

Unabridged: 4 hr 58 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/27/2005

Categories: Fiction, Coming of Age


Synopsis

In this sequel to Gibbons’s beloved classic Ellen Foster, Ellen, now fifteen, is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease. But while she holds fast to the shreds of her child­hood—humoring her best friend, Stuart, who is determined to marry her; and protecting her old neighbor, slow-witted Starletta—she begins to negotiate her way into a larger world. 

 

With a singular mix of perspicacity, naïveté, and compas­sion, Ellen draws us into her life and makes us fall in love with her all over again.

Author Bio

Kaye Gibbons was born in 1960 in Nash County, North Carolina, on Bend of the River Road. She attended North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, studying American and English literature. At twenty-six years old, she wrote her first novel, Ellen Foster. She is also the author of A Virtuous Woman, Charms for the Easy Life, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon, A Cure for Dreams, Sights Unseen, and Divining Women.

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