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A 12-year-old black girl living with a grandmother in rural Virginia is summoned by her mother to Detroit to clean house and cook while the mother has another baby. The girl is bright and becomes the protegee of a schoolteacher, but her efforts to improve herself create conflict with her mother's needs of her as a housekeeper.
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6 editions- Paperback · English · 1996The Good NegressHarper Perennial · 9780060976934
- Paperback · English · 1996The Good NegressDemco Media · 9780606188104
- Other · English · 2017Workman Publishing Company, Incorporated · 320 pages · 9781616205270
- Other · English · 1999Tandem Library · 9780613101158
- Other · English · 1996HarperPerennial · 299 pages · 9780060976835
- Other · English · 1995Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill · 9781565128675
African americans, fictionFiction, coming of ageFiction, family lifeYoung women, fictionDetroit (mich.), fictionNew York Times reviewedFiction, family life, generalAfrican American families