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The darkest child

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 d...

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Main Author: Phillips, Delores, 1950-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Soho, c2004.
Subjects:
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Poor families > Fiction.
Single mothers > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
African American girls > Fiction.
African American families > Fiction.
Georgia > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
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.
Item Description: Includes readers guide.
Physical Description: 387 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9781616958725
Author Notes: Delores Phillips was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. She graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and worked as a nurse at a state psychiatric hospital in Cleveland. Her work has appeared in Jean's Journal , Black Times , and The Crisis . She passed away in 2014; The Darkest Child was her only novel.

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