![]() ![]() ![]() Both women have viable lives outside the homes of their white employers, and both draw clear lines on what they will and will not do.īlanche White, dark-skinned domestic-by-choice who suffers much humor because of her name, has an encounter with the courts in Farleigh, North Carolina, during which an opportunity presents itself for her to run (go "on the lam"). Blanche White, like Mildred, is a competent, sassy day worker whose artful housekeeping and cooking skills enable her to push the relationship between employer and employee farther than the average worker could. It does, however, show its kinship to its literary ancestors, the most notable of which is Mildred Johnson in Alice Childress' Like One of the Family conversations from a domestic's life (1956 1986). A combination of white folks' antics, murder mystery, mistaken identity, and running from the law-all mixed together in a North Carolina setting-make the novel a decidedly distinctive concoction. ![]() The story of domestic workers going through antics with their white employers is not a new one, but anyone picking up Barbara Neely's Blanche On the Lam might easily conclude that he or she had arrived in a different world. ![]()
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