The author of the #1 Denver Post bestseller and Essence Book Club Pick Orange Mint and Honey explores the connection between love and race, and what it really means to be a family
One World/Ballantine
July 2009
On Sale: July 7, 2009
Featuring: Trish Taylor
336 pages ISBN: 0345499077 EAN: 9780345499073 Paperback Add to Wish List
Trish Taylorβs white ancestry never got in the way of her love for her black ex-husband, or their mixed race son, Will. But when Trishβs marriage ends, she returns to her familyβs Denver, Colorado home to find a sense of identity and connect to her past.
What she finds there shocks her to the very core: her mother and newborn sister were not killed in a car crash as she was told. In fact, her baby sister, Billie Cousins, is now a grown woman; her grandparents had put her up for adoption, unwilling to raise the child of a black man. Billie, who had no idea she was adopted, wants nothing to do with Trish until a tragedy in Billieβs own family forces her to lean on her surprisingly supportive and sympathetic sister. Together they unravel age-old layers of secrets and resentments and navigate a path toward love, healing, and true reconciliation.
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