Claudette Carrida Jeffrey: 2 books

When 23 year-old Claire Soublet arrives in New York City to begin her new life, she has no idea that after only four days, a situation will arise forcing her to return to New Orleans. Growing up mired in years of hardship and being abandoned by family through death and disinterest, she manages to...

A coming of age story about a young Creole of color who, by age seventeen, is left without a family either by abandonment or death. Shes taken in by an elderly White woman whom shes befriended and confided in over a period of years when she makes drugstore deliveries to the womans home. Sera Menard helps...