Rocking the Babies
Original title: Rocking the babies
first published 1994 Penguin (Non-Classics), 1995 272 pages
In the Neonatal Intensive Care unit of an Ohio hospital, two black women sit rocking babies who are either too small or too damaged to survive without the loving care of volunteer grandmothers. Martha Howard is prim, educated, and middle class. She's had many advantages in life, but she's stuck in the past, ruminating about the death of her infant son. Nettie Lee Jones is fat, poor, and caustically outspoken. She's...
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