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Set in rural Georgia in the 1950's, a time when the opportunities for African-Americans were unimaginably different,this is the story of a mother who cannot distinguish love from posession,and a daughter-her darkest child-who longs for a better life.
Phillips's searing debut reveals the poverty, injustices, and cruelties that one black family suffers--some at the hands of its matriarch--in a 1958 backwater Georgia town.
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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
Awards: Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary_award | Winner | First Novel | 2005 2005 ; Hurston/Wright LEGACY Award | Nominee | Debut Fiction | 2005 2005
Product Details
ISBN-10: 1569473781
EAN: 9781569473788
Binding: Paperback
Published Date: January 2005
Publisher: Soho Press
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Writing Origin: African American
Language: English
Product Dimensions: 2.74 cms x 21.03 cms x 14.07 cms
Number of pages: 462 pages
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