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Author:

Verdelle, A. J., 1960-

Title:

The good Negress / A. J. Verdelle.

Edition:

First Algonquin paperback edition.

Publisher:

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

305 pages ; 21 cm.

Subject:

African American families--Fiction.
African American women--Fiction.
Young women--Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.)--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
FICTION / African American / General
FICTION / Coming of Age
FICTION / Family Life

Summary:

A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to improve herself create conflict with her mother's needs of her as a housekeeper.

ISBN:

9781616205270
161620527X

Locations:

DFPC353 -- Ackley Public Library (Ackley)

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

HPPD845 -- Orange City Public Library (Orange City)