@article{716919, recid = {716919}, author = {Clarke, Breena.}, title = {River, cross my heart /}, publisher = {Back Bay Books,}, address = {Boston :}, pages = {viii, 245 pages ;}, year = {1999}, note = {"Originally published in hardcover by Little, Brown and Company, 1999"--Title page verso.}, abstract = {The impact of a child's drowning on a black family in 1925 Washington, especially on the 12-year-old sister who was baby-sitting the girl. Told against the background of the lot of blacks at the time. Alice and Willie Bynum, having moved from rural North Carolina to Georgetown in search of a better life for themselves and their children, must find a way to cope when their six-year-old daughter Clara drowns in the Potomac River.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/716919}, }