ISBN: 1565126807/ ISBN-13: 9781565126800

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

(Hardcover)

by Heidi W Durrow

Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 02/2010, 264 pages, English

This debut novel tells the story of Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Growing up in the 1980s, she confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.