The Girl Who Fell From The Sky - Heidi W. Durrow

Category: Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Teen & Young Adult
Language: EnglishKeywords: African American Culture Coming of Age Fiction Heidi W. Durrow Interracial Racism Intraracial Racism
Written by Heidi W. Durrow
Read by Emily Bauer, Karen Murray, Kathleen McInerney
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged
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.
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.