This is not the first time violence has altered the course of the family’s trajectory. Summer 1995: Ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father’s explosive temper and seek refuge at her mother’s ancestral home in Memphis. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe, NPR, BuzzFeed, Glamour, PopSugar.LONGLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come.”-Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times bestselling author of Red at the Bone “I fell in love with this family, from Joan’s fierce heart to her grandmother Hazel’s determined resilience. “A rhapsodic hymn to Black women.”- The New York Times Book Review A spellbinding debut novel tracing three generations of a Southern Black family and one daughter’s discovery that she has the power to change her family’s legacy.
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