Black Candle Women

✍ Scribed by Diane Marie Brown

• Book ID: 111255916
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 217 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780369719706

✦ Synopsis

"Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder."****-- Ava DuVernay
A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go.
Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them.
But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies.
Their surprise guest...