The Darkest Child
New York, NY : Soho Press, Inc., [2018]
Format: Book
Edition: Special edition.
Description: 387, 25 pages ; 21 cm
"A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with new introduction, excerpt, 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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
African American families -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
African American families -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
African American girls -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Teenage girls -- Fiction.
Georgia -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616958725
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Phillips | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | Out (Due: 5/16/2024) |
F Phillips | Lower Richland | Fiction | Held |
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Includes an excerpt of Delores Phillips's unfinished sequel to The darkest child, Stumbling blocks.