<![CDATA[The Darkest Child: A Novel]]>

false <![CDATA[The Darkest Child: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173812370m/331260.jpg 331260 2 "Evil's regenerative powers and one girl's fierce resistance. . . . A book that deserves a wide audience."-The Cleveland Plain Dealer"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."-The Washington Post Book World"[An] exceptional debut novel. . . . [Has] a depth and dimension not often characteristic of a first novel."-Library Journal (starred)"Phillips writes with a no-nonsense elegance. . . . As a vision of African-American life, The Darkest Child is one of the harshest novels to arrive in many years. . . . [Phillips] buttresses those harsh episodes with a depth of characterization worthy of Chekhov, pitch-perfect dialogue, and a profound knowledge of the segregated South in the '50s."-The New LeaderRozelle Quinn is so fair-skinned that she can pass for white. Her ten children are mostly light, too. They constitute the only world she rules and controls. Her power over them is all she has in an otherwise cruel and uncaring universe.Rozelle favors her light-skinned kids, but Tangy Mae, 13, her darkest-complected child, is the brightest. She desperately wants to continue with her education. Her mother, however, has other plans. Rozelle wants her daughter to work cleaning houses for whites, like she does, and accompany her to the "Farmhouse," where Rozelle earns extra money bedding men. Tangy Mae, she's decided, is of age.This is the story from an era when life's possibilities for an African-American were unimaginably different.Delores Phillips was born in Bartow County, Georgia in 1950, the second of four children. She graduated from Cleveland State University with a bachelor of arts in English and works as a nurse at a state psychiatric hospital. Her work has appeared in Jean's Journal, Black Times, and The Crisis. She has lived in Cleveland, Ohio since 1964. 321825 2004 The Darkest Child: A Novel total:232|5:114|4:76|3:31|2:6|1:5| 232 984 385 61 5 0 false false Tue Dec 09 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 08:07:53 -0800 2008 Wed Jul 29 11:02:36 -0700 2009
In reading this book I saw through its characters different ways people learn and/or choose to survive the hardships of life. A person ca...more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Jan 07 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 09:03:48 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 07 09:05:25 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Nov 13 07:27:22 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 13 07:28:11 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Oct 13 15:18:24 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 13 15:18:48 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Aug 05 18:50:20 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 18:52:51 -0700 2009 Unbeatable plot: a truly psychotic mother raising twelve children in poverty in rural 1950s Georgia. It’s very well-written—I didn’t mind the dialect at all, which speaks volumes about the author’s talents. She uses dialect perfectly: at no point is the writing at all difficult to read...more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 22 12:18:56 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 23 17:13:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 1 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 19 21:50:31 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 05 16:07:05 -0700 2008
I didn't read ANYTHING on this book before I bought it. I did not want any preconceived notions about it. I must say it was a captivating read and I wish filmmakers did not butcher novels b...more...]]> 2 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Fri Mar 14 06:39:01 -0700 2008 Fri Mar 14 06:44:47 -0700 2008
a. It was relentless in its cruelty to its characters. No one had a moment's sunshine, save the deaf-mute sister who's "rescued" from the family by the much-older-than-sh...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Feb 10 08:39:35 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 08:39:35 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Dec 26 18:29:13 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 05 22:18:45 -0800 2009 However, if ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 11:53:18 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 01 11:54:32 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sat Jan 31 18:26:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 11:56:04 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 18:26:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 05 18:33:39 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 16:37:01 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jan 11 06:48:31 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 06:50:38 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jan 03 17:38:06 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 17:39:50 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Wed May 07 03:56:55 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 23 14:11:42 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 09:44:21 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 09:45:21 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Thu Mar 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 05:46:33 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 05:49:01 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jan 27 13:16:48 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 13:18:16 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 18:42:54 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 04 18:42:58 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=331260