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Rachel Harper's debut novel has won praise for its vivid protrayal of a mixed-race girl coming of age in a family that's falling apart. Nellie's white mother and black father are breaking up. Nellie, whose black skin and blonde hair have always made her feel like an outsider, feels even more out of place traveling across the country with her dark-skinned dad, taking her white, sassy cousin Jess to meet her own father. But they might have more in common than they all think
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"I enjoyed this coming of age story of a bi-racial girl and her struggle for identity. The author Rachel Harper is very descriptive in her language and does a good job of allowing the reader to be the "fly on the wall." This is a satisfying read that gives its readers a complete story."
— Ciana (5 out of 5 stars)
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" The book is about a 15 year old girl of mixed race(s) and facing some of the unsettling relationships with her family. Author is of mixed race as well, and it made for a believable well written first book. "
— Renee, 8/30/2013 -
" I really disliked this book. In a sense you can see this writer has some talent. But she had the irritating quality of providing annoying, inconsequential details of every sort, and of having a 15-year-old character who talked nothing like a 15-year-old. And it was boring. "
— Elise, 5/10/2013 -
" i wouldn't have bought this book if it had not been on the bargain shelf, but i'm glad i did. sweet story about a teenage girl facing the trials and tribulations of life. "
— Margo, 4/7/2013 -
" This is a clever, clever bildungsroman doing a lot of unique things with iconic themes: travel, race, identity. "
— Jtw, 4/4/2013 -
" Fifteen year old Nellie, angry over her parents breakup, spends the summer at the family's lake house with Jess, the cousin she rarely knows. At the lake, they reunite with other family members. Jess' father is distant and has a family secret. Nellie finds herself confused over two older boys. "
— Deborah, 3/9/2013 -
" As a teenager of mixed raced parentage, Nellie spends a summer trying to define herself as she deals with first love, her parents marriage dissolving and other family issues. "
— Judy, 9/3/2012 -
" This was about a young girl of mixed race whose parents are going through a divorce, and how she deals with these issues. Much of the book takes place at her family's summer cabin on a lake. I related to her feelings on the divorce, and overall thought it was a decent summer read. "
— Kerry, 8/16/2012 -
" I read this because it was required for this semester. Rachel is an instructor in my MFA program. I would highly recommend this book, not just because she's a teacher in my MFA program, but because I think she created a beautifully true character in Nellie. "
— cristina, 7/12/2012 -
" It is a good book but I expected something different at the end. "
— Silvia, 6/15/2012
About Rachel Harper
Rachel M. Harper is the author of several novels, including This Side of Providence, which was shortlisted for the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has been widely published and anthologized. She has received fellowships from Yaddo and MacDowell and is on the faculty at Spalding University’s School of Writing.
About Susan Spain
Susan Spain has appeared on stages in New York City, across the United States, and in Europe. Performances includes roles in an international production of The Best of Broadway and a staging of Little Shop of Horrors at the Smithsonian Institute’s Folklife Festival in Washington, DC. She has also appeared in Hair.