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The good Negress

"Set in Virginia and Detroit during the 1950s and 1960s, this novel 'is the coming-of-age story of Denise Palms, who leaves her grandmother's rural home to return to her family in Detroit. Denise's family expects her to concentrate on housework and childcare, but her teacher pushes her to spend time on afterschool lessons in diction and grammar in order to "better" herself.'" SLJ "Verdelle's truly fine debut novel belongs in the ranks of other classics in African American folk vernacular." Choice.

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  • "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. A first novel."
  • "After leaving rural Virginia for Detroit in 1963, a young African-American girl struggles with divided loyalties as she begins to see her family in a new light."
  • ""Set in Virginia and Detroit during the 1950s and 1960s, this novel 'is the coming-of-age story of Denise Palms, who leaves her grandmother's rural home to return to her family in Detroit. Denise's family expects her to concentrate on housework and childcare, but her teacher pushes her to spend time on afterschool lessons in diction and grammar in order to "better" herself.'" SLJ "Verdelle's truly fine debut novel belongs in the ranks of other classics in African American folk vernacular." Choice."@en

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  • "Bildungsromans"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Bildungsromane"
  • "Domestic fiction"
  • "Electronic books"

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  • "The Good Negress"
  • "The good Negress"
  • "The good Negress"@en
  • "The good negress"

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