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| | Reading Lists - Coming of Age Novels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | Coming of age in the early 1970s, middle-class African-American Rae finds her precarious optimism unbalanced when her mother abandons the family for her lover, a situation complicated by Rae's need to care for an ailing father, a hip older sister's return, and her own budding sexuality. |
 | | When a construction crew uncovers the remains of a Cheyenne girl, the foreman, anxious about deadlines, orders his men to keep working, but his daughter secretly helps Charlie, one of the workers, to rebury the remains in a sacred place and develops a passionate relationship with the man as an outlet for her repressed emotions. |
 | | Ambitious teen Nella, the daughter of an Italian family from a small Pennsylvania village, aspires to live in society far from the rigors of farm life, a dream that is compromised when a poet she loves mysteriously disappears. |
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