Description
Set in rural Georgia in 1958, this powerful coming-of-age novel follows thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn, the darkest-skinned and most intellectually gifted of her mother’s ten children. As her siblings are forced into work to support the family, Tangy Mae is offered a life-changing opportunity: a place in the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. To pursue an education, she must challenge her mother’s brutal control and confront the racism, poverty, colorism, and violence that shape her world. With unflinching realism and deep compassion, the novel explores identity, resilience, family power, and one girl’s perilous struggle for freedom.
Available Editions
paperback
Soho Press
Published Jan 30, 2018
432 pages
ISBN: 9781616958725
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Details
First Published
2004
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips.