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Title	:	The Darkest Child
Author	:	Delores Phillips
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	January 1st 2005 by Soho Press (first published 2004)
Categories	:	Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Cultural. African American. Race

The Darkest Child

Delores Phillips

Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

Rating: 4.37 | 8922 Users | 1096 Reviews

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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?

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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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The cover of this book is absolutely beautiful to me, but I wish I could say the same for the content. Rozelle is a very evil person, called the devil's spawn by her own Mama. She is horribly abusive to her ten children and completely gets away with it. Tangy Mae is an amazing and strong girl who in my eyes, is a true hero. This book takes place during the civil rights era in the south, which makes it more real, and even harder to digest, the events that take place. This book hits a huge variety

*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

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

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 sympathetically

Heart breaking, Disturbing, Sad, Curious story that you just can not stop reading. ...If that is the introduction that I give it then why did I keep reading? Because this is a book you can't put down. Like the cruel, startling evening newscast that you just keep watching. Like video of an accident you know is about to happen but you can't turn away. Because I am a hopeful person. I hoped that through all that was happening something would stop the injustice, something would stop the abuse and

I don't know where to start with this book! It's set in 1950s Georgia where Rozelle (Rosie) Quinn is living in extreme poverty with her ten children. She's a Black woman who's light enough to pass for white; all of her children are varying shades of light skin, expect for Tangy Mae--she's the darkest (and smartest) of the children. Rosie dislikes Tangy's dark skin and she thinks she's lazy because she would rather get her high school diploma instead of dropping out to find work.Tangy Mae tells

4.5 starsWhew! Wow what a book. What a beautifully written yet sad book. Why has this Author not written another book? Perhaps this was the only story she needed to tell. The writing was so wonderful and vivid that I could see/imagine what was happening. That is not always a good thing with this book as there is a tremendous amount of abuse in this book. I found that I could not read this book fast. I had to take breaks from it. This is not an easy read. The book begins when Rozelle tells her