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Verdelle, A. J., 1960-
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Families, Black -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
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Verdelle, A. J., 1960-
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
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The good Negress / A.
J
.
Verdelle
.
by
Verdelle
, A.
J
.,
1960-
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, c.1995, 2016.
Call #:
FICTION VER
Subjects
Families, Black -- Fiction.
Women, Black -- Fiction.
Young women -- Fiction.
Detroit (Mich.) -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781616205270 (trade pbk.)
161620527X (trade pbk.)
Edition:
1st Algonquin paperback ed.
Description:
305 p. ; 21 cm.
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."--From publisher.
Genre:
Domestic fiction.
Literary fiction.
Black fiction.
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