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Format: Paperback
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published: Sep 2002
Genre: Fiction - General
Retail Price: $22.99
Pages: 336
Returning to Mississippi after being raped in Chicago, Cora Harvey marries her local sweetheart, but her marriage is shortlived when she gives birth to baby Emma, who is unmistakably white, which forces Emma to grow up amidst prejudice and rejection and, eventually, flee to New York to pass for white, and Emma's daughter Parris must delve into the dark secrets of the past to bring her family back together. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.