Synopsis:

Despite being a straight-A student and voracious reader, eight-year old Sandrine Miller is treated as little more than a servant by her mother, who forces Sandrine to clean house, do chores and take care of her younger half sister, Yolanda. On top of the despair of her life at home, Sandrine must confront growing up against the harshness of life in 1970s-era New Orleans, where men in cars follow her home from school and she is ostracized because she is a light-skinned black girl. The only refuge Sandrine has against her bleak world is spending summers with her beloved grandmother, Mamalita. After Mamalita’s death, Sandrine realizes that she must escape from her mother, from New Orleans, from everything she has known, if she is to have any kind of future.

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Topics/Categories:

1970s, African Americans, New Orleans, Women/Girls

Type of Work:

Novel

Publishers:

Ig Publishing

Awards:

2006 William Wisdom-William Faulkner novel finalist

Purchase From:

Amazon
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Original Publish Date:

November 1, 2007

Formats and associated ISBNs:

9780978843120

Formats:

Paperback

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