Another possibility for this list of "Huck's Literary Children," especially female narrators, would be Kaye Gibbons' very fine first person narrated novel _Ellen Foster_. The narrator here is an abused young girl in the south. Perhaps also Dorothy Allison's _Bastard Out of Carolina_ or Rita Mae Brown's _Rubyfruit Jungle_ would also fit the bill. Just my two cents. Thanks. Renee L. Gross