WHITE GIRLS.
by Lynn Lauber
Published by NY: NORTON. 1990, Hardcover. 187pp. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket. Author's first novel.
Meet Loretta Dardio, warm-hearted, bold, mischievous, and curious, trying to grow up too fast in Union, Ohio, during the 1950s and 1960s. To Loretta, Union is a world that seems split in two: the dull, predictable lives of whites like her family, and the magical world of blacks on the other side of the tracks.