Melissa Ginsburg
Melissa Ginsburg was born and raised in Houston, Texas, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of the novel, Sunset City, and the poetry collection Dear Weather Ghost. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Mississippi in Oxford.
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The House Uptown
- By: Melissa Ginsburg
- Narrator: Emily Shaffer
- Length: 7 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 16, 2021
- Language: English
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Melissa Ginsburg’s The House Uptown is an emotional coming-of-age novel about a young girl who goes to live with her eccentric grandmother in New Orleans after the death of her mother.
Ava, fourteen years old and totally on her own, has still... Read more
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