The Darkest Child : A Novel

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Summary: The Review
Review: "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

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Summary: FANTASTIC FIRST NOVEL
Review: AFTER READING THIS BOOK AND I HAVE READ VERY MANY.............THIS IS BY FAR ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS I HAVE EVER READ.............BEING RAISED BY A MOTHER VERY SIMILAR TO TANGY MAE'S MOM I COULD REALLY RELATE TO ALOT OF IT.....ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT IT WAS VERY WELL WRITTEN AND I HOPE THERE WILL BE A MOVIE AND I WILL READ EVERY THING ELSE DELORES PHILLIPS WRITES.............GREAT JOB...

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Summary: Bravo! Outstanding!
Review: Delores Phillips has outdone herself. Her debut novel left me stunned. Her vivid descriptions of her characters had them jumping of the pages directly into my living room. Reading alone, I found myself laughing and crying aloud for the members of the Quinn family. Ms. Phillips definitely drew on her experience as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital when developing the psychotic character of Rozelle. I am so appreciative that we now live in a time where child protection laws are enforced (to a degree). I cannot imagine myself enduring the physical, verbal and emotional abuse that Tangy Mae and her siblings were subjected to. If Oprah's Book Club were still reading contemporary fiction, this would definitely be one of her selections. However, since it is not, I have chosen it as my book group's featured selection for the month of August, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown V. Board of Education ruling. I hope Ms. Phillips will consider a film adaptation of the book and I cannot wait for a sequel. Readers of this book will not want it to end. A definite must read!

P.S. Does anyone know where I can find a reading guide/discussion questions for this book?