Dollbaby - Laura Lane McNeal

Dollbaby

By Laura Lane McNeal

  • Release Date: 2014-07-03
  • Genre: Fiction & Literature
4.5 Score: 4.5 (From 932 Ratings)

Book Synopsis

A Top Ten Finalist for Best Historical Novel, Goodreads Choice Awards, and a LibraryReads and Okra Pick

A big-hearted coming-of-age debut set in civil rights-era New Orleans—a novel of Southern eccentricity and secrets
 
When Ibby Bell’s father dies unexpectedly in the summer of 1964, her mother unceremoniously deposits Ibby with her eccentric grandmother Fannie and throws in her father’s urn for good measure. Fannie’s New Orleans house is like no place Ibby has ever been—and Fannie, who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum—is like no one she has ever met. Fortunately, Fannie’s black cook, Queenie, and her smart-mouthed daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the South, both its grand traditions and its darkest secrets.
 
For Fannie’s own family history is fraught with tragedy, hidden behind the closed rooms in her ornate Uptown mansion. It will take Ibby’s arrival to begin to unlock the mysteries there. And it will take Queenie and Dollbaby’s hard-won wisdom to show Ibby that family can sometimes be found in the least expected places.
 
For fans of Saving CeeCee Honeycutt and The Help, Dollbaby brings to life the charm and unrest of 1960s New Orleans through the eyes of a young girl learning to understand race for the first time.
 
By turns uplifting and funny, poignant and full of verve, Dollbaby is a novel readers will take to their hearts.

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Latest Impressions

  • Doll- baby

    5
    By Ekahivillage
    Wonderful story and great characters. I love books about strong women and this story has many.
  • Dollbaby

    5
    By caroleeeeeeee
    I loved this story and all the characters. I’d love to see this on film. Family are those who love you and keep your secrets.
  • Charming and Southern

    4
    By Tcd99
    Loved the character development but there were opportunities to go deeper!
  • Dollbaby

    5
    By Love to Tango
    Wonderful written book. Great characters, easy read.
  • Doll baby

    3
    By tersoc
    It was ok
  • Ten wonderful hours!

    5
    By Alyoop11
    I read this book in ten hours today. I laughed, I cried and I knew each of those characters from mile markers in my own life. I will never forget this wonderful, open and honest story of loving, brave and resilient women. Alyoop11
  • Dollbaby

    4
    By zoesampoochie
    weird characters, hard to like
  • Dollbaby

    3
    By No No Nannette
    I look forward to her next book.
  • Dollbaby

    5
    By PushpushStable
    Occasionally a book will touch your soul with the beauty of the prose and the richness of characters you would wish to meet. This is just such a book.
  • Doll baby

    5
    By Tesaxyaya
    Fascinating time in America where the country was still segregated after WWI. This is life in New Orleans. It had so many twists and turns that I could not put the book down. The characters so realistic and warm you feel a part of the family too!