Baby of the Family(1989) by Tina McElroy Ansa

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Baby of the Family (1989)

by Tina McElroy Ansa

Macon, Georgia

Georgia: 19/23

  I guess this would be a minor classic/candidate for revival type pick by African American author Tina McElroy Ansa, it has many of the conventions the reader associates with the magical realist, African American writers of the south.  This plot involves a little girl who can talk to ghosts.  At least this particular southern African American family isn't desperately poor and riddled with ptsd and trauma.  The ghosts the little girl speaks with certainly are though.