The girl who fell from the sky

a novel

264 pages

English language

Published Nov. 13, 2010 by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

ISBN:
978-1-56512-680-0
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OCLC Number:
303099540

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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.

5 editions

Subjects

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