*Paris, 1923* The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides
Speaking of Summer
β Scribed by Buckhanon, Kalisha
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 196 KB
- Edition
- First hardcover edition
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
"Speaking of Summer gives us a powerful song about what it means to survive as a woman in America." βJesmyn Ward, National Book Award winner and author of Sing, Unburied, Sing
Named a Best Book of the Summer by USA Today, O: The Oprah Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, TIME, Cosmopolitan, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New York Post, CrimeReads, Essence, Bustle and more.
On a cold December evening, Autumn Spencer's twin sister, Summer, walks to the roof of their shared Harlem brownstone and is never seen again. The door to the roof is locked, and the snow holds only one set of footprints. Faced with authorities indifferent to another missing Black woman, Autumn must pursue the search for her sister all on her own.
With her friends and neighbors, Autumn pretends to hold up through the crisis. But the loss becomes too great, the mystery too inexplicable, and Autumn starts to unravel, all the while becoming obsessed with the various...
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