Copyright © 2004 by Delores Phillips

All rights reserved.

Published by
Soho Press, Inc.
853 Broadway
New York, NY 10003

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Phillips, Delores, 1950–
The darkest child / Delores Phillips.

p. cm.

ISBN 1-56947-345-5 (alk.paper)
1.Teenage girls—Fiction. 2. Poor families—Fiction.

3. Single mothers—Fiction. 4. Mothers and daughters—
Fiction. 5. African American girls—Fiction.

6. African American families—Fiction.,

7. Georgia—Fiction. I.Title.

PS3616.H455D37 2004
813'.6—dc21 2003050561

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