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The Good Negress

(1995)
(This Rain Coming)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1997 Dublin Literary Award (nominee)
1996 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee)

A brilliant, eye-opening, and critically acclaimed debut novel that follows a young black girl's coming of age as she comes to question the legacies of her family and culture and begins to determine her course for the future.


Genre: General Fiction

Praise for this book

"Truly extraordinary." - Toni Morrison


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