The Darkest Child
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4.4 • 42 Ratings
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- $19.99
Publisher Description
A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction 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. Rozelle's children live in fear of her mood swings and her violence, but they are devoted to her. Rozelle pulls her children out of school when they are twelve years old so that they can help support her by going to work-as domestics, as field laborers, or down at "the farmhouse," where Rozelle takes her oldest daughters to turn tricks for her. Tangy Mae has been offered the opportunity to apply to an integrated high school, and might even have the chance to graduate if she can somehow avoid her sisters' fate. Can she break from Rozelle's grasp without violent-even fatal-consequences?
Customer Reviews
The darkest child
One of the best books that I’ve read in the in a while you will be immersed in the Pages you will be visualizing everything in your mind. It will take you to another place if you’re reading it or if it’s audio I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did
Triggering
This tale paralleled many of my own experiences as a child growing up in a large family in the South. I found myself crying along with the Quinn children as they struggled to understand a mother who didn’t know how to mother. This is what I remembered about my own mother. Even so, this story was captivating and heartbreaking.
OMG
From beginning to end, this book had my mind and heart in its grip. So many emotions felt, so many thoughts. I am sad that the sequel was not able to be completed. I know I would have loved it the same. I highly recommend this book.