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'I loved her
with all my heart, but if she did not die by Monday morning, I was determined
to discover from the pages of my schoolbooks, how to break the chains
that bound me to my mother...'
‘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.’ Washington Post Book World
Rozelle Quinn is
so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly
light, too. Everyone in her small Georgia town knows that they all have
different fathers. She favours her light children, but it is Tangy Mae,
the darkest of them all, who is the brightest and the only one desperate
to get an education. But her mother has other plans for her. She wants
thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae to take over her jobs: spending her days
cleaning houses for whites, and nights servicing men, black and white,
at the infamous ‘Farmhouse’.
Rozelle’s children are the only thing in her life she has control
over, and she is not a woman whose commands can be easily ignored. She
is a creature of moods, possessive of all her children, demanding of
them complete loyalty and obedience.
The Darkest Child
shows us a world misshapen by years of oppression in which family is
powerful yet offers little kindness or comfort. It shows a world in
which attitudes of prejudice have been adopted by its victims. The struggle
for those with darker skin, like Tangy Mae, has become not only against
outsiders, but against their own kin.
Delores Phillips
was born in Georgia. She is a graduate of Cleveland State University
and works as a nurse in a facility for abused women and children in
Cleveland. This is her first novel.
'Delores Phillips'
assured debut offers a unique vision of a black family in the Deep South.
Fans of Beloved or The Color Purple will find resonance
in this finely constructed novel, which pulls no punches in its portrayal
of racism, a dysfunctional family and a child desperate to survive.'
QPD REVIEW MAGAZINE
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Price: £9.99
Format: Paperback Original
ISBN: 0-7145-3114-6
Fiction
Publication: July 2005
