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Also by Valerie Wilson Wesley:

The Mysterious Death Of Junetta Plum, December 2025
Hardcover / e-Book / audiobook
A Shimmer of Red, August 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
A Fatal Glow, March 2022
Trade Size / e-Book
A Glimmer of Death, January 2021
Trade Size / e-Book
Of Blood and Sorrow, February 2008
Hardcover
Playing My Mother's Blues, February 2007
Paperback (reprint)
Playing My Mother's Blues, June 2006
Trade Size

PLAYING MY MOTHER'S BLUES
By: Valerie Wilson Wesley

Avon
June 2006
On Sale: June 13, 2006
240 pages
ISBN: 0060890053
EAN: 9780060890056
Trade Size
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Multicultural African-American

Dani Carter was seven years old -- her sister, Rose, seventeen -- when their beautiful, impetuous mother, Maria, walked out of their lives, abandoning her husband and family for a love affair. Over the decades that followed, Dani has married a successful man and given birth to a wonderful son. But love has long been missing from her marriage, propelling her into the arms of another and inspiring troubling thoughts of escape. The sins of the mother, Dani fears, have been visited upon the daughter.

Now that she finds herself in a similar heartbreaking situation, Dani can't help but wonder who Maria really was. It's a puzzle that may soon be completed, after a lifetime of searching for missing pieces. Maria, calling herself Mariah, is about to reenter her daughters' worlds, bearing secrets and bitter truths... and, perhaps, long-awaited answers to what could possibly drive a mother to sacrifice what was dearest to her heart.