Delta Girls (38 page)
Authors: Gayle Brandeis
Gayle Brandeis is the author of two novels,
The Book of Dead Birds
, which won the Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, and
Self Storage
, as well as a young adult novel,
My Life with the Lincolns
, and a writing guide,
Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write
. A former figure skater, she lives in Redlands, California, and has one child in college, one in high school, and one new baby.
Delta Girls
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
A Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Original
Copyright © 2010 by Gayle Brandeis
Reading group guide copyright © 2010 by Random House, Inc.
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Grateful acknowledgment is made to Adrienne Rich and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., for permission to reprint “Delta” from
The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems 1950–2001
by Adrienne Rich, copyright © 2002, 1989 by Adrienne Rich. Reprinted by permission of Adrienne Rich and W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Brandeis, Gayle.
Delta girls : a novel / Gayle Brandeis.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-0-345-52179-8
1. Single mothers—Fiction. 2. Migrant agricultural laborers—Fiction. 3. Delta
Region (Calif.)—Fiction. 4. Women figure skaters—Fiction. 5. Mothers and
daughters—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3602.R345D45 2010
813′.6—dc22 2010012555
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