THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERAN OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK-Deeply moving- Sarah Winman, author of Still Life-Remarkable- Afua Hirsch, author of Brit(ish)-A sweeping epic - Outstanding- Daily MailImmerse yourself in a celebration of Black womanhood and an epic tale of the stories that span generations.Ailey Pearl Garfield grows up between the City in the north and summers spent in her mother-s small hometown of Chicasetta, Georgia. From an early age, she finds herself in a battle for belonging that-s made all the more difficult by a hurt in her past, as well as the whispers of women-her mother, Belle, her sister, Lydia, and a maternal line reaching back two centuries-that urge Ailey to succeed in their stead.To come to terms with her identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family-s past, uncovering the shocking tales of generations of ancestors-Indigenous, Black, and white-in the deep South. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression and resistan
