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.