We Are All Welcome Here (24 page)

This 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.

Ballantine Books Trade Paperback Edition

Copyright © 2006 by Elizabeth Berg

Reading group guide copyright © 2007 by Random House, Inc.

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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2006.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to RF Entertainment Inc. for permission to reprint an excerpt from the song “The Mercy of the Fallen” by Dar Williams from the album entitled
Beauty and the Rain,
copyright © 2002 by Burning Field Music. All rights reserved. Reprinted by permission.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

Berg, Elizabeth.

We are all welcome here: a novel / Elizabeth Berg

p. cm.

1. Poliomyelitis—Patients—Fiction. 2. Civil rights movements—

Fiction. 3. Mothers and daughters—Fiction. 4. African Americans—

Fiction. 5. Race relations—Fiction. 6. Tupelo (Miss.)—Fiction.

7. Caregivers—Fiction. 8. Girls—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3552.E6996W4 2006

813'.54—dc22    2005048956

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