Safeguarding babies and very young children is a highly complex process, involving difficult decisions surrounding their needs, care, and whether they need to be separated from their families. This book, based on a research study which followed babies who were identified as likely to suffer significant harm before their first birthdays until they were three years old, explores key issues surrounding the safeguarding process. These include how the decision whether to remove children from their...
–Long unavailable, this reissue of author's highly regarded first novel was originally published in hardcover by Viking Penguin in 1986. -Author receives wide support from gay, lesbian, feminist, and mainstream readers and media. -Sales reps should reference Brown as author of Gifts of the Body–likely her best-seller.
Rebecca Brown is one of the best-known lesbian writers in the country. New work from the award-winning author of The Terrible Girls, The Gifts of the Body, and The End of Youth
Brown is a longtime City Lights author who has achieved critical success and a prestigious literary reputation. In American Romances, Brown will push her style even further, combining pop culture, autobiography, fiction, literary history, and misremembered movie plots. Her new collection will be highly anticipated by the literary community.
