Good Negress
Subtitle: A Novel
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781616205270
Subjects: African americans, fiction; Fiction, coming of age; Fiction, family life; Young women, fiction; Detroit (mich.), fiction
Description: 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.