Title: The good Negress /
Authors: Verdelle, A. J., 1960-
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill,
Year: 1995
Subjects: African American families Fiction; African American women Michigan Detroit Fiction.; African American women Fiction; Young women Fiction; Detroit (Mich.) Fiction
Abstract: A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to improve herself create conflict with her mother's needs of her as a housekeeper. A first novel.