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Date of Publication: 1993
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  • Dorothy Allison
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“Bone, an illegitimate child in a family of social outcasts, sees her mother’s happiness with her new husband and will not tell when the stepfather begins abusing her in the 1950s.”

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Allison, Dorothy. Bastard Out of Carolina. New York: Plume, 1993.

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