![]() The book took me to 1958 and into the lives of the Quinn’s family. I knew that The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips would be a special book from the minute I turned the first page. ![]() She has a chance to change her life, but can she break from Rozelle’s grasp without ruinous–even fatal–consequences? 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.īut Tangy Mae has been selected to be part of the first integrated class at a nearby white high school. Rozelle–beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned–exercises a violent hold over her children. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest. ![]() Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. ![]()
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