Darkest child by Phillips, Delores 

Paperback(Soho, 2018)

BTSB #: 714682 Available

Dewey: FAges: 12-16   


Genres: Family Life Historical Fiction Multicultural

Subjects: African American families - Fiction Mother-daughter relationship - Fiction African American girls - Fiction Single mothers - Fiction Teenage girls - Fiction Georgia - Social life and customs|y20th century - Fiction

Summary: In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's ten children, but she is also the darkest-complected. The Quinns--all different skin shades, all with unknown fathers--live with their charismatic, beautiful, and tyrannical mother, Rozelle, in poverty on the fringes of a Georgia town where Jim Crow rules.