cover image True Life Story of Isobel Roundtree

True Life Story of Isobel Roundtree

Kathleen Wallace King. Pocket Books, $13.95 (180pp) ISBN 978-0-671-89185-5

This debut novel portrays a young girl who's abandoned by her mother and taken in by a woman determined to protect her from the chaos of early 1960s America while instilling in her a sense of hope. (July)