This was a pretty impressive debut, the only book by Delores Phillips although she was in the works of writing a sequel before she died. This book is about Tangy Mae, a brilliant African American girl who wants to get out of the family and town that entrap her. Tangy's mother is pretty messed up, having no problems with pimping Tangy out. Tangy gets the offer of going to a white school but her mother is set against it. Tangy is the only one in her family who is capable of getting a high school diploma. Tangy also experiences other problems like her crush on her sister Martha Jean's husband. The edition I got was around 387 pages but it went by pretty quickly.
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