Binding: Hardcover
Description: A People Magazine Pick. In delicious decadent prose Denene Millner does what few authors can compose a sprawling multigenerational tale that is necessary American reading. One Blood sings the song of the South in a voice that is heartbreaking hopeful and resilient. A masterpiece. Tara M. Stringfellow National Bestselling author of Memphis Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love hope dreams ambition. and family secrets in this epic novel. Meet Grace: raised by her beloved grandmother in tension - filled post - segregation Virginia Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her grandmother. Shellshocked she is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie a woman who firmly left behind her Southern roots in pursuit of upward mobility. Feeling like a fish out of water in the high society world filled with fancy teas and coveted debutante balls Grace's only place of comfort is with the smart handsome son of one of the society's grand dames. Meet Delores: beautiful intelligent and fierce Delores a. k. a. Lolo has never had it easy. Once she makes it north she puts aside her dream of being a model to do what she has to do to survive as a woman with little money and no mooring: get married and have a family of her own. When secrets start to spill out and she and her family slowly begin to unravel Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together. Meet Rae: when Lolo's headstrong daughter Rae discovers that she is adopted it's just one secret among others that her family is keeping. When Rae finds out that she's 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 to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women's equality in early 2000s Denene Millner's beautifully wrought novel explores three women's intimate and often complicated struggle with what it truly means to be family.
Title: One Blood A Novel
Author(s): Millner Denene
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
Barcode: 9781250276193
Pages: 432 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/5/2023
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction