01064cam a2200289 4500 1261850138 TxAuBib 910418s1991||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 91017842 9780671740382 0671740385 9780671038182 0671038184 (OCoLC)1106 DLC eng DLC JBR BAKER BTCTA YDXCP MOF OKM SXC OCLCQ DB@ HIR TxAuBib Lott, Bret. Jewel : a novel / by Bret Lott. New York : Pocket Books, 1991. 358 p. ; 25 cm. In the backwoods of Mississippi, Jewel, her husband Leston, and their five children learn to cope with their last-born child, Brenda Kay, born mentally retarded in 1943. Families Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Children with mental disabilities Fiction. Mississippi Fiction. Pastoral fiction. Domestic fiction.