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The girl who fell from the sky / a novel by Heidi W. Durrow.

Summary:

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1565126807
  • ISBN: 9781565126800
  • ISBN: 9781565129627
  • ISBN: 1565129628
  • Physical Description: 264 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: 1st edition
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010.

Content descriptions

Awards Note:
Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.
Subject:
Multiracial children > Fiction
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Intergenerational relations > Fiction.
Intergenerational relationships.
Genre:
Coming-of-age fiction
Fiction.

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