Before Women Had Wings
Before Women Had Wings
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Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
Publication year: 1996
ISBN: 0399141294
Description:

A nine-year-old girl's harrowing account of abuse at the hands of her parents. Her name is Avocet Jackson, but her mother called her Bird, naming both her children after birds, "her logic being that if we were named for something with wings then maybe we'd be able to fly above the shit in our lives."