The Girl Who Fell from the Sky [electronic resource]
Durrow, Heidi W.2010
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This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl— and society's ideas of race, class, and beauty. It is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.
Main title:
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky [electronic resource] / Heidi W. Durrow
Author:
Durrow, Heidi W., Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Algonquin Books, 2010
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Heidi W. Durrow has won the Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition and the Chapter One Fiction Contest. She has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the American Scandinavian Foundation, and the Lois Roth Endowment and a Fellowship for Emerging Writers from the Jerome Foundation. Her writing has been published in Alaska Quarterly Review, the Literary Review, and others.
ISBN:
9781565129627
Language:
English
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BRN:
2906314
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