My life as a rat : a novel

Summary: Violet Rue Kerrigan, a young woman looks back upon her life in exile from her family following her testimony, at age twelve, concerning what she knew to be the racist murder of an African-American boy by her older brothers. In a succession of vividly recalled episodes Violet contemplates the circumstances of her life as the initially beloved youngest child of seven Kerrigan children who inadvertently "informs" on her brothers, setting into motion their arrests and convictions and her own long estrangement.

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ISBN: 9780062899903 (electronic bk)
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: 2019.

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Electronic reproduction. New York : Ecco, 2019. Requires Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 5 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB).