The Sharecropper's Daughter

By Julie Miliner
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Published: Feb. 10, 2013
Words: 76,604 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781301450121

Short description

The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid a racist and ambiguous backdrop. She is forced to find a balance between a mother who finds it difficult to embrace her and a father she will never know.

Extended description

The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid a racist and ambiguous backdrop. She is forced to find a balance between a mother who finds it difficult to embrace her and a father she will never know. Abandoned at birth she is shuffled from one place to another, sometimes with relatives, and sometimes with strangers who value the weekly stipend they receive more than the girl they're caring for. She is eventually reunited with her mother but the relationship is strained and uncertain. Frank Lee begins to find love and acceptance from her aunt and cousins, as well as from Theo the boy who shows up one day in their neighborhood. This is an epic tale that spans the time of slavery through the pre-civil rights movement. The characters are rich and fluent in the language of survival and perseverance. There is.. (Read more) The Sharecropper's Daughter tells the story of Frank Lee, a girl born to a black mother and a white father in 1930s South Carolina. Frank Lee grows up between the precarious backdrop of being black but looking white amid a racist and ambiguous backdrop. She is forced to find a balance between a mother who finds it difficult to embrace her and a father she will never know. Abandoned at birth she is shuffled from one place to another, sometimes with relatives, and sometimes with strangers who value the weekly stipend they receive more than the girl they're caring for. She is eventually reunited with her mother but the relationship is strained and uncertain. Frank Lee begins to find love and acceptance from her aunt and cousins, as well as from Theo the boy who shows up one day in their neighborhood. This is an epic tale that spans the time of slavery through the pre-civil rights movement. The characters are rich and fluent in the language of survival and perseverance. There is love, loss, pain and forgiveness that every reader will identify with.
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race, biracial, slavery, harlem, fatherless daughters, romance historical, abandoned at birth, black africans, 1920 to 1940, fatherless sons

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