This Day's Madness
Bowen, Sandra E.
This Day's Madness justifiably earns its title of madness, because there is no other way to describe or rationalize what happens to Frankie, an eight year old orphan black girl entrusted to the care of Tom, a white man and the owner of Doub Circus in which Frankie performs as the WORLD'S YOUNGEST TRAPEZIST. This Day's Madness is a quasi-tragedy in which the gods and poetic justice are absent. For, Frankie's unrelenting tragic suffering is crea...