The Darkest Child

Delores Phillips

earliest edition we have, 2005 Soho Press, Incorporated, 2005

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...

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The Darkest Child paperback · 2018 · Soho Press · 432 pages · 9781616958725
The Darkest Child audiobook · 2018 · Recorded Books, Inc. and Blackstone Publishing · 1 pages · 9781664465046
Darkest Child edition · 2005 · Boyars Publishers, Ltd., Marion · 387 pages · 9780714531144
Darkest Child edition · 2005 · Soho Press, Incorporated · 392 pages · 9781569473788
Darkest Child edition · 2005 · Soho Press, Incorporated · 9781299656314

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