The root worker
Detroit (mich.), fiction
African American girls
Voodooism
Vodou
Mothers and daughters, fiction
Female friendship
Mothers and daughters
African americans, fiction
Fiction, general
Fiction
"The Root Worker is the story of Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s. As described in Ellen's own voice, the world is a threatening place. She is afraid of her teachers, nuns at the Catholic school she attends, who instill in her a fear of punishment fo…
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