Melissa Ginsburg's The House Uptown is an emotional coming-of-age novel about a young girl who goes to live with her eccentric grandmother in New Orleans after the death of her mother. Before I share an extract, kindly supplied by Flatiron Books, here's the book blurb to give a flavour of the story. Ava, fourteen years … Continue reading #Extract from The House Uptown by Melissa Ginsburg #ComingofAge @flatironbooks @Ginsburgmelissa