The author was born on May 12, 1955, in Los Angeles, California, and is the sixth of sixteen children. Read moreĢ011 award-winning writer Carol Denise Mitchell, began writing as a youngster when she learned her father was illiterate and could not read. Her own qualities of intelligence and determination and the interest taken in her by a lady child psychologist who encourages her in her studies even to the extent of standing by her in the years that follow. But two things save her from this likely future. In many cases that would be the end of the story, with a predicted descent into a spiral of ever more crime and degradation. When she retaliates, in order to save herself, the system unfairly punishes her. The narrative, which is closely written, and uses a realistic version of African American speech soon draws us into the central dilemma of a child, who due to her light skin, is rejected by the other children in her school, this then leads to her being ostracized, bullied and at one point even her life is threatened. This gripping story about an abused girl, who uses an unlikely prototype of as a guide to a better life, acts as a sort of metaphor of social realism regarding the rise of the African Americans to greater prominence and wealth in modern society as a whole.
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