01188cam a2200289 4500 517221148 TxAuBib 080916s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2008036810 9780547076614 alk. paper 0547076614 alk. paper DLC DLC TxAuBib Sanders, Scott Loring. Gray baby : a novel / by Scott Loring Sanders. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2009. 321 p. ; 22 cm. Clifton has grown up in rural Virginia with the memory of his African American father being beaten to death by policemen, causing his white mother to slip into alcoholism and depression, but after befriending an old man who listens to his problems, Clifton finally feels less alone in the world. Racially mixed people Fiction. Single-parent families Fiction. Alcoholism Fiction. Grandfathers Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Murder Fiction. Country life Virginia Fiction. Virginia Fiction. TXHSP