The Darkest Child Phillips Delores Paperback
The Darkest Child Phillips Delores Paperback A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction by Tayari Jones, an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and…
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The Darkest Child Phillips Delores Paperback
A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction by Tayari Jones, 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. Rozelle--beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned--exercises a violent hold over her children. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle's, estimation, but she's also the brightest.
She has a chance to 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.
The Darkest Child
The Darkest Road
The Darkest Day
The Darkest Evening
The Darkest Corners
The Darkest Season
The Darkest Hour
The Darkest Dark
The Darkest Tales
The Darkest Flower
The Darkest Sin
Even the Darkest Night