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One day she'll darken : the mysterious beginnings of Fauna Hodel / Fauna Hodel ; with J.R. Briamonte.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Los Angeles, California] : Graymalkin Media, 2019Copyright date: ©2008Description: xi, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781631682476 (paperback) :
  • 1631682474 (paperback) :
Other title:
  • One day she will darken
  • Mysterious beginnings of Fauna Hodel
Subject(s): Summary: "The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress s gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman. Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own. Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even death until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past. But as Fauna will learn, some truths don't want to be told."--Back cover.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library Biography Hodel, F. H687 Available 33111009342003
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Biography Hodel, F. H687 Available 33111009324670
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

After her father, Dr. George Hodel, a prominent Hollywood physician was acquitted in a sensational incest trial, 16-year-old Tamar gave birth to a blue-eyed, white skinned baby girl. She insisted that the father was Negro . Outraged by the audacity of their daughter and the stigma attached to a mixed-race child within their midst, her mother quickly arranged to have the baby permanently given away to Jimmie Lee, a black maid in a Nevada casino. Overwhelmed by the problems of raising a white-skinned baby in her black community, Jimmie spent the next twenty years struggling to secretly raise Fauna. Together they endured extreme poverty, alcoholism, starvation, sexual abuse, pregnancy and death, hopelessly bound and knotted together by relentless bigotry. Fauna survived this difficult world with a vow to find the one person who knew her beginnings her biological mother, Tamar the woman of her dreams. Fauna sets out to discover the truth, only to uncover her familys notorious secret: her extraordinary grandfather and the murder of the Black Dahlia. ?Ohaunting, poignant and heart-wrenching?O.the stuff of which movies are made. --Cliff Rothman, Contributor, Vanity Fair ...laughter, sass, spirit and tears leaves the readers awash in hope. --Alfre Woodard, Actor

"The inspiration for the TNT series I am the night"--Half-title page.

"Now includes an 8-page photo insert from Fauna's personal collection"--Back cover.

"The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress s gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman. Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own. Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even death until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past. But as Fauna will learn, some truths don't want to be told."--Back cover.

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