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The girl who fell from the sky

Tale about the daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself. Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne, a friend of Rachel's mother.

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  • "Tale about the daughter of a Danish immigrant and a black G.I. A beauty with light brown skin and blue eyes, she attracts much attention in her new home. The world wants to see her as either black or white, but that's not how she sees herself. Meanwhile, a mystery unfolds, revealing the terrible truth about Rachel's last morning on a Chicago rooftop. Interwoven with her voice are those of Jamie, a neighborhood boy who witnessed the events, and Laronne, a friend of Rachel's mother."@en
  • "Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity."
  • "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."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop. Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes and beauty bring a constant stream of attention her way. It's there, as she grows up and tries to swallow her grief, that she comes to understand how the mystery and tragedy of her mother might be connected to her own uncertain identity. This searing and heart-wrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society's ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice."@en
  • "A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of Rachel's struggle as an astonishingly beautiful mixed-race child in a mostly black community. As terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her self-image in a world that wants to see her as either black or white."
  • "Inspired by a true story of a mother's twisted love, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky paints the haunting portrait of a young orphan's quest for truth. A bizarre mystery surrounding a family tragedy forms the centrepiece of Rachel's struggle as an astonishingly beautiful mixed-race child in a mostly black community.As terrible secrets begin to emerge, Rachel learns to swallow her grief and construct her self-image in a world that wants to see her as either Black or White.A mother, trapped between fear and despair. A girl, tumbling from the sky. And a boy, standingby his window, who watches her fall. The sole survivor of a horrific family tragedy, Rachel is sent to live with a grandmother she's never met, and thrust for the first time into a black community where her light brown skin and startling blue eyes provoke a constant stream of attention. Grappling with a world that demands her to be either white or black, and struggling with her grief, she begins to understand how the mystery of her mother's desperate action connects to her own uncertain identity and the tangle of lives left behind. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky is a searing and heart-wrenching portrait of a young girl dealing with society's ideas of race and class, whose story comes to encapsulate a humanity at once terribly fragile and astonishingly resilient. Winner of the Bellwether Prize for best unpublished novel addressing issues of social justice"@en
  • "Na de dood van haar moeder, broer en zusje wordt een bijna blank meisje van 12 jaar opgenomen door haar zwarte oma en moet ze zich staande zien te houden in een haar vijandige wereld."

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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Miscellaneous fiction"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Bildungsromans"@en
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  • "Electronic books"@en
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  • "The girl who fell from the sky : A novel"
  • "The girl who fell from the sky"@en
  • "La fille tombée du ciel"
  • "The girl who fell from the sky"
  • "Pigen der faldt ned fra himlen"@da
  • "The Girl Who Fell From the Sky"@en
  • "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"@en
  • "The girl who fell from the sky a novel"@en
  • "The girl who fell from the sky a novel"
  • "The girl who fell from the sky : a novel"
  • "Het meisje dat uit de lucht viel"
  • "The Girl who fell from the sky"@en

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