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The Darkest Child

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Bahni Turpin
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Ratings
Book
156
Narrator
51
Release Date
January 30, 2018
Duration
15 hours 24 minutes
Summary
A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction In 1958 Georgia, the shade of a 13-year-old black girl's skin can make the difference in her fate. Tangy Mae is the smartest of her mother's ten children, but she is also the darkest-complected. The Quinns-all different skin shades, all with unknown fathers-live with their charismatic, beautiful, and tyrannical mother, Rozelle, in poverty on the fringes of a Georgia town where Jim Crow rules. Rozelle's children live in fear of her mood swings and her violence, but they are devoted to her. Rozelle pulls her children out of school when they are twelve years old so that they can help support her by going to work-as domestics, as field laborers, or down at 'the farmhouse,' where Rozelle takes her oldest daughters to turn tricks for her. Tangy Mae has been offered the opportunity to apply to an integrated high school, and might even have the chance to graduate if she can somehow avoid her sisters' fate. Can she break from Rozelle's grasp without violent-even fatal-consequences?
Reviews
Profile Avatar Tammy B Apr 2018

This was a good book until the ending. It’s like the author didn’t finish the book. I was so upset by the ending.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Nov 2020

I have learned so much from this book. I have fallen in love with the characters. the narrator is very good at this book.

Profile Avatar Marguerite V. Aug 2020

Great narrating!enjoyed the characters very much

Profile Avatar Susan M. Jul 2020

This was long, like 15 hours, but it kept me engrossed. Until the end. Even for a book with a sequel, this was no ending. Nothing was resolved and no point to the future. But the descriptions of life on the fringes, in the Jim Crow South, were vivid, horrifying, fascinating.

Profile Avatar Adrienne R. Jul 2020

Good storyline with characters you come to care for. Would have loved to complete the second book.

Profile Avatar Travis H Feb 2018

This book open my eyes to the untold story of family members and how you can make it through any despairing situation

Profile Avatar Jess A. Oct 2020

How do I write a review that conveys what a beautiful and heartbreaking story this is? This story really touched me and the narrator was perfect. Most importantly, it gave me a different perspective and made me think more about current racial issues in the US. It’s hard for me to understand how different life is as a person of color and how some of us take our lives for granted. Other than the racial themes, the author does a phenomenal job of telling the story through the eyes of a pre-teen girl growing up in the south and all the emotions that go along with it. I’m not sure what happened at the end. It’s almost as if the author finished a sentence and decided she was done. That was disappointing but overall the book was great!

Profile Avatar Roxie Y. Aug 2020

The narrator was phenomenal! She seemed to effortlessly be all the characters in the book. Heart breaking story that you just hoped would result in triumph for some of its characters, but that wasn’t the case. Great writing though. I needed more and didn’t like the introduction of the sequel nor the way it ended.

Profile Avatar Renisa W. Oct 2022

Great book but very emotional and shocking.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Feb 2022

A fast-paced book with amazing insight into a mental disorder. I did not enjoy, however, the unfinished sequel to the story.

Profile Avatar Faith W. Nov 2021

Great book

Profile Avatar Shirley B. Aug 2021

This is a book that I won't soon forget! So tragic but hopeful...will probably do a second listen...I had to stop at times then come back...unbelieveable Well worth the l8isten!

Profile Avatar Jacqueline J. Jun 2021

I absolutely loved this story and the narrator was phenomenal.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Apr 2021

good books would love to see more like it

Profile Avatar Janay R. Jan 2021

Very deep and although very sad, it is very moving.

Profile Avatar Vernicka R. Jul 2020

This book was powerful and had my full attention from the beginning till the end!

Profile Avatar Jill S. Jul 2020

powerful. sad. a story I won’t soon forget.

Profile Avatar Nadia R. Nov 2018

This is an amazing work of art. I wish the author were around to give us more of this amazing word.

Profile Avatar Anonymous Jul 2018

Great book! Can't wait for part 2!

The Darkest Child

The Darkest Child

Author: Delores Phillips
Read by: Bahni Turpin
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