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The Darkest Child

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781569473788 Author(s): Delores Phillips Format: Paperback Year: 2005 Publisher: Soho Press Dimensions: 141 x 210 x 27 (w x l x h) Pages: 400

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Description: "Evil's regenerative powers and one girl's fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience."—"The Cleveland Plain Dealer" "Filled with grand plot events and clearly identifiable villains and victims . . . lush with detail and captivating with its story of racial tension and family violence."—"The Washington Post Book World" " An] exceptional debut novel. . . . Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel."—"Library Journal" (starred) "Phillips writes with a no-nonsense elegance. . . . As a vision of African-American life, "The Darkest Child" is one of the harshest novels to arrive in many years. . . . Phillips] buttresses those harsh episodes with a depth of characterization worthy of Chekhov, pitch-perfect dialogue, and a profound knowledge of the segregated South in the '50s."—"The New Leader" 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,