Anna's Face

 When Anna Carr died in childbirth in 1900, her family took in three of her four children — but refused the darkest one, Ira. What they couldn't erase was Anna's face, which Ira carried forward through generations shaped by colorism: to her light-skinned daughter Aline, to Aline's son Terrill, and finally to Terrill's daughter Adjoa, who returns with Ira's dark complexion and Anna's unmistakable features, the rejected child come home over 100 years later, this time beloved. 

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