(Baixar) B.o.o.k.s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky
By Heidi W. Durrow
This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish
mother and a black G.I. who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy.
With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian,
Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin,
blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the
1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her
identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as
either black or white. In the tradition of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John
and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, here is a portrait of a young girl - and
society's ideas of race, class, and beauty.
