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The darkest child

Phillips, Delores 1950- (author.).

Summary: 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781569473450
  • ISBN: 1569473455
  • ISBN: 9781569473788
  • ISBN: 1569473781
  • Physical Description: 387 pages ; 22 cm.
    print
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Soho Press, 2004.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes reader guide.
Awards Note:
BCALA Literary Award: First Novelist Category, 2005

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Subject: Georgia Fiction
African American families Fiction
Poor families Fiction
Teenage girls Fiction
African American girls Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.

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  • 5 of 5 copies available at Sage Library System.

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  • 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Status Due Date Courses
Baker Richland Branch PHILLIPS (Delores) (Text) 37814003172260 FICTION Available -
Grant County Library AF PHILLIPS (Text) 37845000003389 Adult Fiction Available -
Ione Public Library 813 PHI (Text) 37843000058701 Adult Fiction Available -
Sherman County Public/School Library FIC PHI (Text) 37039000157144 FICTION Available -
Treasure Valley Community College Library FIC P5423d (Text) 32220000969093 Adult Fiction Available -
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