The darkest child / Delores Phillips.

Author/creator Phillips, Delores author.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Soho, ©2004.
Description387 pages ; 22 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Poor families--Fiction.
Single mothers--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
African American girls--Fiction.
African American families--Fiction.
Georgia--Fiction.

Subject Rozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly light, too. They constitute the only world she rules and controls. Her power over them is all she has in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe. Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but Tangy Mae, 13, her darkest-complected child, is the brightest. She desperately wants to continue with her education. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the "Farmhouse," where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, she's decided, is of age. This is the story from an era when life's possibilities for an African-American were unimaginably different.
Genre/formDomestic fiction.
Genre/formHistorical fiction.
LCCN 2003050561
ISBN1569473455 (alk. paper)
ISBN9781569473450 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3616.H455 D37 2004 ✔ Available Place Hold