Durrow, Heidi W. , 1969-

The girl who fell from the sky : a novel / by Heidi W. Durrow - 1st ed - Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2010. - 264 p. ; 22 cm.

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.


English

Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.

9781565126800


Racially mixed children----Fiction
Identity (Psychology)----Fiction
Intergenerational relations---Fiction

PS3604.U757 / G57 2010

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