Title: Good Negress
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.
Subjects: African americans, fiction, Fiction, coming of age, Fiction, family life, Young women, fiction, Detroit (mich.), fiction, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, family life, general, African American families, Fiction, African American women, Young women