Daughter of My People: A Novel (Brown Thrasher Books Ser.)
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0820320021 / Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr, May 1998
Jennie Grant, a woman of mixed race, is loved by one of her two male cousins and dishonored by the other, putting on her the burden of understanding that promises victory over forces of ignorance and prejudice
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At the center of the story are two brothers, Hart and Tison Bonner, and their cousin Jennie Grant, the mixed-race woman one brother loves and the other dishonors. Theirs is a world in which dark passions lead to tragic consequences. The burden of understanding that promises redemption and victory over the destructive forces of ignorance and prejudice rests on the shoulders of Jennie. A shadowy but prominent figure in the stories passed down to Kilgo, Jennie here is given her due. Her strength and dignity, the driving forces of this novel, shine through the generations with the glow of heirloom sterling.
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