‘Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient… a masterpiece’ TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis ‘Epic, heartbreaking and beautiful’ KARIN SLAUGHTER ‘I was left thinking about these women and how their lives were eternally linked, long after I finished this amazing novel’ VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Three women are tied together by blood, love and family secrets. A birth mother Raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, segregated Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her Maw Maw and is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie in a society of stifling respectability. When Grace falls in love and ends up pregnant, she is quickly hidden away: then, in the ultimate act of betrayal, her baby girl is taken from her and given up for adoption. An adoptive mother Beautiful, intelligent and fierce, Delores a.k.a. Lolo has never had it easy, her life riddled with pain and loss. Her brightest dream is to be married and to have a family of her own, and she will tell lies and keep secrets to obtain it. When those secrets start to spill out, Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together. The daughter to both When Lolo’s headstrong daughter Rae discovers that she is adopted, and that she is about to become a mother herself, she knows that there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers. Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration through the civil unrest of the ‘60s to the cultural shift of the early 2000s, Denene Millner’s beautifully wrought novel is a hymn to Black motherhood, exploring three women’s intimate struggle with generational trauma and healing.
CONTRIBUTORS: Denene Millner
EAN: 9780008441906
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 270 g
HEIGHT: 240 cm
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WIDTH: 159 cm
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‘Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient… a masterpiece’ TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis
‘Epic, heartbreaking and beautiful’ KARIN SLAUGHTER
‘I was left thinking about these women and how their lives were eternally linked, long after I finished this amazing novel’ VICTORIA CHRISTOPHER MURRAY
‘A beautiful, brilliant American epic’ TARANA BURKE
Denene Millner is a New York Times bestselling author who has written and collaborated on 31 critically acclaimed and prize-winning books. She is also a highly respected and sought-after journalist and has written for Ebony, Women’s Health and Essence, among others. She is vice president and publisher of Denene Millner Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and founder and editor of the website MyBrownBaby.com. She lives in Atlanta with her two daughters and their adorable Goldendoodle, Franklin.
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