A Family Matter

A Family MatterA READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY Burns like a sparkler, quick and mesmerizing. The New York Times Longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize A young wife following her heart. A husband with the law on his side. Their daughter, caught in the middle. Forty years later, a family secret changes everything in this quietly heart scorching (Barbara Kingsolver) debut novel. 1982. Dawn is a young mother, still adjusting to life with her

When Oklahoma was created on top of Muscogee land

His desire to cross pawns again

a knowing child whose personality doesn’t quite match her name (Jamaican for “no problem”)

Every day she sees the same people

this is an invitation to see your world through a different lens

She encourages them to give voice to their secret desires as she captures their deepest

“Sublime short stories of race

designed chapter headers

the writer’s seemingly neutral position reveals itself to be more complicated than the reader is initially led to believe

” —Megan Angelo

Beautifully designed hardcovers—with foil-stamped jackets

Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia from the moment they meet