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Growing up in a small Mississippi River town, Fannie Leary works at the local café, trying to hold her own in a world of slow expectations and hard boundaries. Dreaming that her cooking will be her ticket out of Persia, she cleaves to Mattie, the irrepressible black woman who runs the kitchen; to Will, the troubled, quiet boy she falls in love with; and eventually to Sheila Jones, a reclusive young girl who has returned with her mother from California...
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2001
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English
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Hoping to use her cooking skills as her ticket out of her small Mississippi River town, "Fannie is the only one who can piece the story together" when a young black boy suddenly disappears. "What she uncovers is as unexpected as it is heartbreaking."--Jacket.
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