![]() Rozelle, who takes center stage, is a monster whose treatment of her children reads like a charge sheet. All the children have different fathers, Tangy Mae the darkest, while Rozelle herself is the product of a white man who raped her mother. The story, told by Tangy Mae, begins as her mother Rozelle gives birth to her tenth child, Judy. Both races father illegitimate children, and while the older blacks fear confrontation, the younger want to act immediately. The blacks who live in Pakersfield, Georgia, are almost as nasty as the whites, who are all racist, vicious hypocrites. ![]() Phillips writes vividly and certainly creates memorable characters-most of them, however, remembered for their nastiness, there being an absence of redeeming features. A grim tale, set in the dying days of segregation, about one young woman’s struggle to escape her past, her mother, and her duties. ![]()
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