Book 2017

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Publisher: Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated
Language: English
Published: 2017

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

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.