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November 25, 2014

Today's Featured Title and Contest November 25, 2014
 
This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book to consider as a holiday gift selection. Read more about it, and enter our Holiday Cheer Contest by Wednesday, November 26th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of DOLLBABY by Laura Lane McNeal, which is now in stores. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
Today's Featured Book and Contest: DOLLBABY by Laura Lane McNeal

A big-hearted, coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans --- a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets.

When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother Fannie and throws in her father’s urn for good measure. Fannie’s New Orleans house is like no place Ibby has ever been --- and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum --- is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook, Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the South, both its grand traditions and its darkest secrets.

For Fannie’s own family history is fraught with tragedy, hidden behind the closed rooms in her ornate Uptown mansion. It will take Ibby’s arrival to begin to unlock the mysteries there. And it will take Queenie and Dollbaby’s hard-won wisdom to show Ibby that family can sometimes be found in the least expected places.

For fans of SAVING CEECEE HONEYCUTT and THE HELP, DOLLBABY brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time.

By turns uplifting and funny, poignant and full of verve, DOLLBABY is a novel readers will take to their hearts.

-Click here to read a review.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here for the reading group guide.
-Click here to read Laura Lane McNeal's bio.
-Click here to visit Laura Lane McNeal's official website.
-Connect with Laura Lane McNeal on Facebook and Twitter.

Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Wednesday, November 26th.

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