Good Negress

A. J. Verdelle

earliest edition we have, 1995 Demco Media, 1996 paperback

A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to improve herself create conflict with her mother's needs of her as a housekeeper.

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Good Negress edition · 2017 · Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated · 320 pages · 9781616205270
The Good Negress paperback · 1996 · Harper Perennial · 9780060976934
The Good Negress paperback · 1996 · Demco Media · 9780606188104
Good Negress edition · 1995 · Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 9781565128675

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