01198cam a2200289 4500 204291774 TxAuBib 20150223120000.0 060219s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9725208 9780375500510 23.00 0375500510 23.00 TxAuBib Quindlen, Anna. Black and blue : a novel / by Anna Quindlen. New York : Random House, 1998. 293 p. A nurse escapes her abusive husband, a New York policeman, taking their son with her to Florida. She assumes a new identity and even finds romance, but there is a price, the 10-year-old boy misses his father and she lives in constant fear the father will find them, which he does. The novel analyzes why abused women wait so long to make their break. 1060 Lexile. 20060219. Mothers and sons -- Fiction. Abused wives-Fiction. Man-woman relationships -- Fiction. Florida-Fiction. Domestic fiction. BSBPL