๐๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ซ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐ง
๐๐ฒ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐๐ฒ ๐๐๐
๐๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ฌ๐ก๐๐ซ: ๐๐๐ญ๐๐ซ๐๐ซ๐จ๐จ๐ค
๐๐ฎ๐ ๐๐๐ญ๐: ๐.๐.๐๐๐๐
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Thank you @tlcbooktours and @waterbrookmultnomah for a spot on tour and a gifted book.
๐๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐ฃ๐ ๐จ๐ค๐ช๐ฉ๐๐๐ง๐ฃ ๐ฌ๐ค๐ข๐๐ฃ. ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐๐ฃ๐๐ก๐ช๐๐ฃ๐ฉ๐๐๐ก ๐๐๐ข๐๐ก๐ฎ. ๐ผ ๐ง๐๐๐ฉ ๐ฉ๐๐๐ฉ ๐๐ค๐ช๐ก๐ ๐๐๐จ๐ฉ๐ง๐ค๐ฎ ๐ ๐ก๐๐๐๐๐ฎ.
When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their wounds, and move forward together in this heartwarming contemporary debut novel with loose parallels to beloved women from the Bible.
๐๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค:
The four women of the Gardin family live side-by-side in Edin, Georgia, but residing in tight proximity doesnโt mean everything is picture-perfect. Ruth runs the familyโs multimillion-dollar peanut business, a legacy of the Gardinsโ formerly enslaved ancestors. But tensions have intensified since the death of her husband, Beau, and she feels like an outsider in the very place she wishes to belong.
Sisters Mary and Martha fuel the family tension. Marthaโs unfounded mistrust of Ruth causes her to constantly seek ways to undermine Ruthโs decisions with the business, while Mary, trying to focus on her new restaurant that serves healthy comfort food, is dragged into the family fray by Martha.
For years, Naomi, the matriarch who raised the sisters after their parentsโ death and supported Ruth in her grief, has played peacemaker. But as she decides to take a step back, hidden truths, life-and-death circumstances, and escalating clashes finally force the Gardin women to grapple with what it means to be a family.
๐งโ๐งโ๐งโ๐ง๐๐จ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ญ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐๐ฒ ๐ข๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฒ: ๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐ฆ๐๐ค๐๐ซ, ๐ฆ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ซ, ๐ก๐๐ซ๐จ, ๐๐ฅ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง, ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ซ, ๐๐ญ๐โฆ?