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Title: The Darkest Child by Delores Phillips ISBN: 1-56947-345-5 Publisher: Soho Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.69 (26 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Review
Comment: "Ms. Phillips, thank you." Delores Phillips in her literary debut set the bar with "The Darkest Child" as this book is a literary masterpiece.
This book made me feel and I am forever grateful for that experience as she also created dialogue that I feel needs to be answered before I leave this Earth.
I cried, I laughed, I had to stop at times as it was getting to be too much, but, in the end "The Darkest Child" is a book that needs to be read by every Black person.
Ms. Phillips though is wrong on one account as this book is real. The protagnoist, Tangy Mae Quinn, exists, as do Rozelle, Tarabelle, Sam, Harvey, Hambone, Martha Jean, Mushy, just to name a few.
These characters are real. The situations are real. Reading this book gave me a peek into what it must have been like living in the segregrated South as a Black man or rather being Black period, and the anger I felt at white people in their view and treatment of Blacks, and how the effects of that time still carry on today.
I encourage each of you to purchase this book and buy an extra one and give it to someone.
--Juss
Rating: 5
Summary: A Simply Breath Taking Novel...
Comment: "The Darkest Child" is an excellent dubet book written by Delores Phillips. Her descriptive writing enables you to feel like you are currently present during that time. Her story line is well written. I became very emotional during the reading of this novel. Her description of the horrible descrimation and hate in the South made my skin crawl. Everyone should read "The Darkest Child" no matter what race you are...you can become inspired to know that through the hardships of life you can overcome anything with a touch of "hope". I applaud Ms. Phillips for a writing job well done!
Rating: 4
Summary: The Story Captures You Right Away
Comment: The Darkest Child. By Delores Phillips, 387pp (2004)
The Darkest Child is the story of Tangy Mae Quinn, one of ten children born
to a brutal mother, Rozelle Quinn. Tangy struggles to become educated in
spite of a racist Georgia town and a mother who takes joy in killing her
dreams and self esteem.
The story captures you right away. You feel for Rozelle's children, who in
spite of everything love their mother and crave her acceptance. While you
get to know a little about each sibling, Tangy is the narrator of the book
and the story evolves around her. Tangy is a wonderful heroine, smart,
sensitive, talented and pretty and your heart breaks for the horrors she
endures at the hands of her mother.
I loved the first two thirds of the book, and I could not put it down.
However, when Tangy's mother forces her into prostitution, I felt sick and
literally could not sleep. The description was so vivid and so disturbing
that I had a hard time reading and processing it. This is not a knock on
the author or the book, but more like a word of caution to potential
readers that this book is pretty intense.
One criticism I did have of the book is that it ended too abruptly. I
wanted to know what happened to Tangy and her siblings. I wanted to know
that they were going to be alright. Another problem I had with the book was
that I wanted to know more about what made Rozelle tick. She was obviously
mentally ill, but I wanted to know what happened to her to make her such a
monster. She had no redeeming qualities and was pretty much one
dimensional: pure evil. The book eluded to the fact that she was the
product of rape, and born with the devil in her. I personally do not
believe people are born evil and I wanted to know more about her
background. I felt the story called out for a more complete explanation.
The final problem I had with the book is that Rozelle was a bi-racial woman
and I felt her character with all her unexplained craziness perpetuated the
myth of the tortured mulatto. Unfortunately, this is not the first
contemporary fiction book that I have read that has embodied this theme or
a variation on this theme. There has been a lot of pain associated with
color within our community, and what we need from our writers are
thoughtful discussions, and more complete characters, not knee jerk
stereotypes.
All criticisms aside, I still thought the book was wonderful; very
detailed, very moving and an outstanding first effort by a very talented
author.
4 stars
reviewed by
misrich
Mahogany
Hudson&Albany
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