The girl who fell from the sky
Subtitle: a novel
By: by Heidi W. Durrow
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781565126800
Description: 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.
Notes: Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2008.