Fifth Born AUTH-8879684 When face-to-face with a real

When face-to-face with a real German speaker

advisory board member at the Poetry Translation Centre and member of the Folio Prize Academy

With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Nixon to Felix the Cat

on hill tops

ISBN10: 1988390818

Fifth Born AUTH-8879684 When face-to-face with a realWhen Odessa Blackburn is three years old her beloved grandmother dies, and so begins her story, set in St. Louis, Missouri, and rural Mississippi. As the fth born of eight children, Odessa loses her innocence at rst when her drunken father sexually abuses her, and then again when she alone witnesses her father taking the life of his own brother. Fifth Born is Zelda Lockhart's debut novel, lyrically written and powerful in its exploration of how