Name: Emily Ruth Carter's review of The girl who fell from the sky by Heidi W. Durrow
Item: The girl who fell from the sky
Rating: 3
Author: Emily Ruth Carter

Heidi W. Durrow

After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.

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The girl who fell from the sky

Jerilynn Hallett 

Emily Ruth Carter

Deanna Kendall

A truly tragic story about loving someone so much that you would do anything to protect them from heartbreak. Heidi Durrow weaves a beautifully crafted story of racial and familial tension that brings out the worst and the best in her characters. I loved the fact that the heroine comes to find out that being a survivor of a family tragedy doesn't mean that you failed at dying but that you have a right to fight to live a full life and to love.

Daryl Houston

Liked it less as it went on. Some nice bits, especially about music, but uneven on the whole for me.

Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop. Forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian, Rachel is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring a constant stream of attention her way. It’s there, as she grows up and tries to swallow her grief, that she comes to understand how the mystery and tragedy of her mother might be connected to her own uncertain identity. This searing and heartwrenching portrait of a young biracial girl dealing with society’s ideas of race and class is the winner of the Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.

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After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white. A first novel. Reprint.

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