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Book Club Kit : The girl who fell from the sky (10 copies)

Summary:

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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616200152 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 1616200154 (paperback)
  • ISBN: 9781448790708
  • ISBN: 1448790700
  • Physical Description: 278 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First paperback edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes an interview with Durrow and questions for discussion.
Awards Note:
Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.
Subject: Racially mixed children > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Intergenerational relations > Fiction.
Enfants mЃetis > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
IdentitЃe (Psychologie) > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Relations entre gЃenЃerations > Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Identity (Psychology)
Intergenerational relations.
Racially mixed children.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
Identity (Psychology) > Fiction.
Grandparent-grandchild relationship > Fiction.
Genre: Miscellaneous fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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500 . ‡aIncludes an interview with Durrow and questions for discussion.
5200 . ‡aAfter 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.
586 . ‡aBellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.
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