The darkest child / Delores Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Delores, 1950-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teenage girls--Fiction.

Teenage girls.

Poor families--Fiction.

Poor families.

Single mothers--Fiction.

Single mothers.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

African American girls--Fiction.

African American girls.

African American families--Fiction.

African American families.

Georgia--Fiction.

Georgia.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 387 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Soho, 2004.

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.

Notes:

"Jacket design and photo tinting: Laura shaw Design. Jacket photo: © Bradley Smith ..."

Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards - First Novelist, Winner, 2005

Local Notes:

Van Pelt Library copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Phillips, Delores, 1950- Darkest child.

ISBN:

1569473781

9781569473788

1569473455

9781569473450

OCLC:

52178217

Online:

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