Denene Millner

eBook, ePUB

One Blood (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Behind every strong woman are the women who raised her.

'A powerful family saga' OBSERVER

'Heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient... a masterpiece' TARA M. STRINGFELLOW, author of Memphis

THREE WOMEN. ONE BLOOD.

A birth mother

Grace, growing up in segregated Virginia, is only a teenager when her baby is taken from her in the ultimate act of betrayal.

An adoptive mother

Lolo, who takes the baby in, has dreamed of having a family her whole life. She will do whatever it takes whatever it takes to keep her dream intact.

The daughter to both

Pregnant with her first baby, Rae discovers that she is adopted. Now she must face an important reckoning about her two mothers...

One Blood is a powerful story of mothers and daughters, secrets and history: a hymn to Black womanhood.

'Heartbreaking' KARIN SLAUGHTER

'Epic' i PAPER

'Deeply moving' PEOPLE magazine

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Autor

Denene Millner is a New York Times bestselling author who has written and collaborated on 31 critically acclaimed and prize-winning books. She is also a highly respected and sought-after journalist and has written for Ebony, Women's Health and Essence, among others. She is vice president and publisher of Denene Millner Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, and founder and editor of the website MyBrownBaby.com. She lives in Atlanta with her two daughters and their adorable Goldendoodle, Franklin.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008441920
• Artikelnr.: 68118790

Rezensionen

"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

"One Blood is the haunting, yet wonderfully written story of three women, Grace, LoLo and Rae, who are connected through time, circumstances...and more than just blood. From the first pages, Denene Millner had me captivated with the intimate stories and too many heartbreaking moments of these women as they struggled against every adversity, fighting to find their place and their voice

in this world. With prose that was so beautiful, I often paused to read a sentence twice, I was left thinking about these women and how their lives were eternally linked, long after I finished this amazing novel." - New York Times bestselling author Victoria Christopher Murray

"Denene Millner is a masterful weaver of words, characters, and worlds. ONE BLOOD is a beautiful, brilliant American epic that speaks to Black motherhood, female relationship, marriage, family, legacy, love and healing. It is simultaneously deeply intimate and grandly sweeping."--Tarana Burke, New York Times bestselling author of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

"Clear your calendar before you turn the first page of Denene Miller's irresistibly engaging One Blood because you won't be able to put this compulsively readable novel aside once you start. A profound meditation on generational trauma, Miller's characters leap off the page. Grace, Lolo, and Rae's stories will become your stories, stories that will linger long after you turn the final page." - Sarah Bird, author of Daughter of a Daughter of a Queen

"Millner is a great teller, sharing each woman's story with brutal reality, the kind that can shock you emotionless, but also with a lightness that feels like skipping. It's a mix you can't miss. Readers who want a novel that includes a little bit of last-century history and current events will eat this book up. "One Blood" is a book you'll drop everything to read." - Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Washington Informer

"From high atop the many shoulders of our orating Black Southern Mothers, Denene Milner mouths out their memories to us using the cultural significance of afro-centric contributions to worldly existence. Milner empowers us by her use of the beauty of our blood tale; our womanhoodly power to populate a community, a society, a world, a planet. Now THAT is power! And Milner weaves prose about family that is familiar, like your family, fictive family or so-and-so's family. We find in ourselves the residue of each character: a little bit of MawMaw or Lolo or Rae or Roman or Skye or Diego. In many kinds of way, Milner is in her element when she speaks of African American Mothers. This volume is a unique examination of family social structure that both Sociologists and Anthropologists would appreciate chatting about. The beauty of this tale lies in the intergenerational relationship between three women. The deep examination of the shifting, changing roles and statuses they take on." - Lucy Anne Hurston, author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: A Life of Zora Neale Hurston

"Millner beautifully limns the experiences of a woman who must give up her child, a mother who has adopted, and Black women everywhere who must negotiate the roles of wife and mother while entertaining their own dreams." -Library Journal