BRIGHT SKIN
Julia Peterkin
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932
Hardcover. 1st Edition. Later printing. Black Cloth with red stripes, illustrated in gilt titles on cover and spine. 348pp.
Novel set on a plantation in South Carolina- written in dialect- Mixed race Cricket and her Black fiancé in the Deep South and during the era of Northern Flight from the harshness of Jim Crow.