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The Darkest Child

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Availability:In StockContributor:Delores Phillips, Tayari Jones (Introduction by)Audience:Young AdultPublish date:2018-01-30Pages:432
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soho PressISBN-13:9781616958725ISBN-10:1616958723UPC:9781616958725Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, African American & Black, Coming of AgeBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC986V1PBC
A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with an introduction by Tayari Jones (An American Marriage), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and discussion guide.

Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment, she pulls them from school at the age of twelve and sends them to earn their keep for the household, whether in domestic service, in the fields, or at "the farmhouse" on the edge of town, where Rozelle beds local men for money.

But Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle's grasp without ruinous--even fatal--consequences?
Language:EnglishPublisher:Soho PressISBN-13:9781616958725ISBN-10:1616958723UPC:9781616958725Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, African American & Black, Coming of AgeBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.20 x 5.50 x 1.30 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SC986V1PBC
Delores Phillips was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. She graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and worked as a nurse at a state psychiatric hospital in Cleveland. Her work has appeared in Jean's Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She passed away in 2014; The Darkest Child was her only novel.
Publisher: Soho Press

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