Author : Delores Phillips
Publisher : Soho Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
ISBN 13: 1569477493
Total Pages : 462 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (694 users)
Read and Download Delores Phillips book The Darkest Child in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Darkest Child. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 462 pages. Book excerpt: Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest. Rozelle—beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned—exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment, she pulls them from school at the age of twelve and sends them to earn their keep for the household, whether in domestic service, in the fields, or at “the farmhouse” on the edge of town, where Rozelle beds local men for money. But Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle’s grasp without ruinous—even fatal—consequences?