This is a novel about growing up without a father, with a mother who is beautiful, promiscuous, avidly ambitious. In a small town in Maine, in the human jungle of New York, it talks about growing up defiant and scared, happy and torn up, growing up black, and growing up human.
- ISBN10 0426062507
- ISBN13 9780426062509
- Publish Date 29 March 1972 (first published November 1970)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint TBS The Book Service Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English