Doll-baby Author:Laura Lane McNeal When Ibby Bell's father dies in an accident in the summer 1964 her mother deposits Abby in New Orleans with her eccentric grandmother, Fannie, and throws in her father's urn for good measure. Fannie's rundown Victorian mansion is like no place Ibby has ever been, and Fanny - who has a tendency to end up in the local asylum every once in a while ... more »- is like no one she has ever met. Queen, Fannie's black cook and her daughter, Dollbaby, take it upon themselves to initiate Ibby into the ways of the south, and its darkest secrets.« less