One Day She'll Darken: The Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel by Hodel, Fauna
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- Paperback
- Weight
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- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 1631682474
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Graymalkin Media
ISBN-10
1631682474
ISBN-13
9781631682476
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18038457337
Product Key Features
Book Title
One Day She'll Darken : the Mysterious Beginnings of Fauna Hodel
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Women, Murder / General, Personal Memoirs, Parenting / Motherhood
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, True Crime, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.4 in
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Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Haunting, poignant, and heart-wrenching. The stuff of which movies are made. -- Cliff Rothman "contributor, Vanity Fair"
Dewey Edition
23
Dewey Decimal
362.8298
Synopsis
After her father, Dr. George Hodel, a prominent Hollywood physician was acquitted in a sensational incest trial, 16-year-old Tamar gave birth to a blue-eyed, white skinned baby girl. She insisted that the father was Negro . Outraged by the audacity of their daughter and the stigma attached to a mixed-race child within their midst, her mother quickly arranged to have the baby permanently given away to Jimmie Lee, a black maid in a Nevada casino. Overwhelmed by the problems of raising a white-skinned baby in her black community, Jimmie spent the next twenty years struggling to secretly raise Fauna. Together they endured extreme poverty, alcoholism, starvation, sexual abuse, pregnancy and death, hopelessly bound and knotted together by relentless bigotry. Fauna survived this difficult world with a vow to find the one person who knew her beginnings her biological mother, Tamar the woman of her dreams. Fauna sets out to discover the truth, only to uncover her familys notorious secret: her extraordinary grandfather and the murder of the Black Dahlia. ?Ohaunting, poignant and heart-wrenching?O.the stuff of which movies are made. --Cliff Rothman, Contributor, Vanity Fair ...laughter, sass, spirit and tears leaves the readers awash in hope. --Alfre Woodard, Actor, The inspiration for the TV series I Am the Night. The Black Dahlia Murder is near-legend in the annals of true crime. But behind the shocking case of a young actress's gruesome slaying lies the story of another woman. Was Fauna Hodel the child of incest, and the catalyst for a sensational trial that left her well-to-do family scarred by scandal, even as the accused sexual predator walked free? Taken as an infant from her teenage mother, Fauna was placed in the care of a working-class black woman, who raised the white child as her own. Together, as a close-knit mother and daughter, they weathered years of poverty and bigotry, alcoholism and sexual abuse, pregnancy and even deathff,ff,,,ff,,f,,"ff,ff,,,ff,,f,,eff,ff,,,ff,,f,,"until the time came for Fauna to seek out her real mother, and uncover her lost past. But as Fauna will learn, some truths don't want to be told. Now includes an 8-page photo insert from Fauna's personal collection.
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