Delores Phillips
Paperback | Pages: 400 pages Rating: 4.37 | 8922 Users | 1096 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Darkest Child |
| Author | : | Delores Phillips |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 400 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 2005 by Soho Press (first published 2004) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Race |
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Bakersfield, 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?Describe Books In Favor Of The Darkest Child
| Original Title: | The Darkest Child |
| ISBN: | 1569473781 (ISBN13: 9781569473788) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Hurston/Wright Legacy Award Nominee for Debut Fiction (2005) |
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Ratings: 4.37 From 8922 Users | 1096 ReviewsAppraise Out Of Books The Darkest Child
This book is quite possibly one of the most disturbing books I've read. And that's why I gave it 4 stars. Any book that grab and twist my emotions is a winner. I wanted to stop reading it ~ the abuse scenes were cringe worthy. Not just the physical aspects, but the mental aspects... a part of me just kept asking myself if there are really kids who are living under these conditions and I know there are which made this story all the more compelling.Tangy and her siblings are sympatheticallyDevastating, amazing depiction of pathology both individual and social. Chronicle of family and Southern small-town society in the '50s. Incredible piece of fiction by this author who unfortunately passed away last year, this being the only book she wrote.
With an upbringing as poverty stricken as the one depicted in The Glass Castle and a mother maybe as evil as Kate from East of Eden, The Darkest Child begins in 1958 in a small segregated Georgia town. It's the story of 13 year old Tangy Mae's struggle to get an education while her mother wants her to work as a maid by day and as a prostitute at night. Many types of prejudice are on display.
Incredibly painful read. A single mother of ten (or is it eleven) children who is obsessed with keeping them with her at all cost, even as she abuses them so brutally and sadistically it almost beggars belief. And yet, these things do happen in real life. The protagonist is one of her daughters, the smartest of the bunch who is determined to get her high school diploma against all odds, with her mother intent on getting her out of school so she can earn wages to help feed the family, and the
I went through a range of emotions while reading this book, rage, anger and sadness. This was a really hard read for me, mainly because of the issues covered in the book, they included, rape, colourism, child molestation, sex slavery, jim crow, racism, poverty, single parent reality, physical/emotional/verbal/mental abuse, mental health and general violence. Yes! This book covered a whole lot, it is a very heavy, hard, soul crushing read. Told from the POV of Tangy Mae, The Darkest Child is a
Unbeatable plot: a truly psychotic mother raising twelve children in poverty in rural 1950s Georgia. Its very well-writtenI didnt mind the dialect at all, which speaks volumes about the authors talents. She uses dialect perfectly: at no point is the writing at all difficult to read, nor does it distract. I couldnt put this down.EXCERPT: Satans in here, Mama repeated with mounting fear in her voice. Edna started to cry, and Mama spun around to face her. Shut up. You want him to hear you? she
*SPOLIER ALERT*The Darkest Child, set in the small town of Pakersfield, Georgia is the story of Tangy Mae Quinn as she struggles to love and satisfy her abusive, mentally disturbed, sexually promiscuous, yet breathtakingly beautiful mother Rozelle Rosie Quinn. Mushy, Harvey, Sam, and Martha Jean were her white children. Tarabelle, Wallace, and Laura were Indians Cherokee, no less. Edna and I were Negroes, Tangy Mae describes the diversity of her mothers offspring, categorized by the ethnicities
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