{"id":7449,"date":"2013-08-27T04:10:04","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2013-08-27T04:11:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T04:11:29","slug":"novelist-heidi-durrow-looks-up-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=7449","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/hotmetalbridge.org\/2010\/02\/novelist-heidi-durrow-looks-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hotmetalbridge.org\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Metal Bridge: a literary magazine<\/a><br \/>\nPublished by the University of Pittsburgh<br \/>\n2010-02-15<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liberty Hultberg<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=577\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl who Fell from the Sky<\/a><\/em>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiwdurrow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi W. Durrow<\/a><br \/>\n(Algonquin, January 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Durrow\u2019s debut novel explores modern multiracial identity within one mixed girl\u2019s experience of love, family, class, and beauty in an American society still defining these ideas decades after the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/African-American_Civil_Rights_Movement_(1955%E2%80%931968)\" target=\"_blank\">Civil Rights Movement<\/a>. The main character\u2019s perspective, if sometimes a bit sentimental, provides a precise lens through which to view a delicately complicated and shifting world.<\/p>\n<p>Rachel, daughter of a mother newly emigrated from Denmark and a Black American G.I., opens the novel as the only survivor of a mysterious, tragic accident that leaves her in the care of her grandmother and the black community in Portland, Oregon. Her curly hair, light eyes, and fair skin are the source of much attention and scrutiny, forcing Rachel to examine what it means to be Black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/hotmetalbridge.org\/2010\/02\/novelist-heidi-durrow-looks-up\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Novelist Heidi Durrow Looks Up [Book Review] Hot Metal Bridge: a literary magazine Published by the University of Pittsburgh 2010-02-15 Liberty Hultberg The Girl who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow (Algonquin, January 2010) Durrow\u2019s debut novel explores modern multiracial identity within one mixed girl\u2019s experience of love, family, class, and beauty in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,20],"tags":[65,64,15308,3100,3101],"class_list":["post-7449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-hot-metal-bridge","tag-hot-metal-bridge-a-literary-magazine","tag-liberty-hultberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}