Expansive narrative follows five Black women across two decades for a sweeping generational story
Captures the nuances of Black women's experiences in urban settings for authentic representation
Features humor and devastation to illuminate the complexities of friendship and identity
National Book Award finalist and winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for literary merit
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"Wonderfully ambitious.... Flournoy explores the complexity of friendship, family, and home in a voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating. I loved this book." -- Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as
