Durrow, Heidi W., 1969-

The girl who fell from the sky : a novel / by Heidi W. Durrow. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2011. - 278 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes an interview with Durrow and questions for discussion.

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.

ISBN: 9781616200152 (pbk.) 1616200154 (pbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Racially mixed children--Fiction.
Identity (Psychology)--Fiction.
Intergenerational relations--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Bildungsromans.

LC Class. No.: PS3604.U757 / G57 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6