Laura L. McNeal’s DOLLBABY, a debut novel pitched as in the tradition of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, set in 1964, in which a girl from the Pacific Northwest visits her estranged grandmother in New Orleans and meets Dollbaby, the maid who guides her through the ghosts of her grandmother’s past and the racial turmoil that may tear the family apart, to Pamela Dorman at Pamela Dorman Books, in a significant deal, in a pre-empt, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (world English).
