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The Darkest Child

The Darkest Child

Phillips, Delores
Jones, Tayari

Paperback

General FictionHistorical Fiction

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1616958723
ISBN13: 9781616958725
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: Jan 30 2018
Pages: 432
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.20
Language: English
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?

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