The girl who fell from the sky : a novel
Title:
The girl who fell from the sky : a novel
Author:
Durrow, Heidi W., 1969-
ISBN:
9781565126800
Publication Information:
Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010
Physical Description:
264 p. ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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.
Subject:
| Racially mixed children -- Fiction |
| Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction |
| Intergenerational relations -- Fiction |
| Bildungsromans |
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.