The Darkest Child
by Delores Phillips
Buy on AmazonThe Darkest Child is the first novel by writer Delores Phillips, published in 2004. The book is set in Georgia in the late 1950s, when Jim Crow laws enforced segregation in the American South, and is written from the perspective of a black woman. The main character is Rozelle Quinn, a mother of ten children who works as a domestic servant for a family she does not like.
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"It's a heartbreaker — there has never been a more problematic mother-daughter relationship in all of literature. But it's also a heart-healer."
By the Book: Tayari Jones · nytimes.com