Neecey's Lullaby
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Cris Burks. (2015). Neecey's Lullaby. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Cris Burks. 2015. Neecey's Lullaby. Recorded Books, Inc.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Cris Burks, Neecey's Lullaby. Recorded Books, Inc, 2015.
MLA Citation (style guide)Cris Burks. Neecey's Lullaby. Unabridged Recorded Books, Inc, 2015.
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Burks's unflinching, precisely observed story of a girl's will to survive her hopeless surroundings—a Chicago home ravaged by poverty, abuse and neglect—follows Neecey from her childhood in the mid 1950s to her early 20s, in 1973. Burks recounts a bleak coming-of-age for Neecey, beginning with the dissolution of her parents' marriage. The sudden appearance of a man claiming to be her real father sets in motion the philandering of her de facto father, Jesse, and the jealous rages of her mother, Ruby. In a broken home ruled by Ruby's fists and extension cord lashings, self-sacrificing Neecey assumes an adult role as surrogate mother to her younger siblings, whose numbers grow from three to five as Ruby barters her body for male comfort. Giving predatory lovers free range over her home while leaving Neecey to cook and care for the children, Ruby displays a destructive self-absorption unmitigated by any sense of responsibility to her family. While Burks (SilkyDreamGirl
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