One blood / Denene Millner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Millner, Denene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American women--Fiction.

African American women.

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Family secrets--Fiction.

Family secrets.

Generational trauma--Fiction.

Generational trauma.

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Social classes--Fiction.

Social classes.

Adopted children--Fiction.

Adopted children.

Adoption--Fiction.

Adoption.

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Genre:

Urban fiction.

Historical fiction.

Novels.

Domestic fiction.

Physical Description:

425 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

1 blood

Place of Publication:

New York : Forge / Tor Publishing Group, 2023.

Summary:

"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 to be family"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781250276193

1250276195

OCLC:

1395000750