This Child's Gonna Live

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A paperback book entitled This Child’s Gonna Live with a cover featuring pink text over a photograph of Sarah E. Wright. Large text along the upper left corner reads [This Child’s / Gonna / Live]. The bottom third of the cover shows text reading [A Novel by / SARAH E. / WRIGHT /[With an Appreciation / by John Oliver Killens]. A solid pink line extends from [Killens] to the far-right edge. The back of the book is white with an orange header and black text. It features three book reviews and short biographies of Sarah E. Wright and John Oliver Killens. The 286-page book follows the main character, Mariah Upshur, wife and mother, living in the fictional fishing village of Tangierneck on Maryland's Eastern Shore in the 1930s.

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