The girl who fell from the sky : a novel /

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by Durrow, Heidi W.,
[ 02. English Fiction ] Published by : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, (Chapel Hill, NC :) Physical details: 278 p. ; 21 cm. Subject(s): Racially mixed children --Fiction. | Identity (Psychology) --Fiction. | Intergenerational relations --Fiction. | Bildungsromans. --gsafd. Year : 2011 02. English Fiction Item type : 02. English Fiction
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Charlottetown Rural High School Adult F DUR Available

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.