The girl who fell from the sky : a novel /
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.
Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.
1565126807 9781565126800
2009027572
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
Racially mixed children--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
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.
Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.
1565126807 9781565126800
2009027572
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.
Racially mixed children--Fiction.
Bildungsromans.