We are All Welcome Here

Fourteen years ago, pregnant Paige Dunn was felled by a severe case of polio; she delivered her baby from an iron lung. Left alone after her husband abandoned and divorced her, she raised her daughter, Diana, alone. Diana, now 13, has taken over the night shift of her mother's round-the-clock nursing care. Out of this virtually shut-in situation, Elizabeth Berg has knitted a tight fiction about domestic strife and loyalty; racism; and the long aftermath of disease.