Must Read Releases - 30th January 2018
It's a MASSIVE day for brand new releases today - 21 that I want to read so far! (If anyone has any tips for how to squeeze in more reading time I would be most grateful!) So, take a deep breath, here we go... The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips (Historical/Women's Fiction) A new edition of this award-winning modern classic, with a new introduction by Tayari Jones ( An American Marriage ), an excerpt from the never before seen follow-up, and discussion guide. Pakersfield, Georgia, 1958: Thirteen-year-old Tangy Mae Quinn is the sixth of ten fatherless siblings. She is the darkest-skinned among them and therefore the ugliest in her mother, Rozelle’s, estimation, but she’s also the brightest. Rozelle—beautiful, charismatic, and light-skinned—exercises a violent hold over her children. Fearing abandonment, she pulls them from school at the age of twelve and sends them to earn their keep for the household, whether in domestic service, in the fields, or at “the...