Heidi Durrow - The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Heidi Durrow discusses The Girl Who Fell from the Sky at

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.