num_pages: 320
description: A brilliant, eye-opening, and critically acclaimed debut novel that follows a young black girl's coming of age as she comes to question the legacies of her family and culture and begins to determine her course for the future.
language: English
title: The Good Negress
titlecomplete: The Good Negress
genres: Fiction, Cultural, Historical, Literature, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Southern, Literary Fiction, African American
ratings_count: 422
places: Detroit, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Dublin Literary Award
category: Shortlist
publisher: Harper Perennial