When Salome, a former slave and Henry’s mistress, gives birth to a white-skinned, blue-eyed daughter, Henry orders a reluctant Lady Bertha to claim the child as their own…allowing young Margaret to pass into the white world of privilege.Īs Margaret grows older, unaware of her true parentage, devastating circumstances threaten to shroud her in pain and shame…but then, ultimately, in revelation. So Henry, desperate to preserve his aristocratic family lineage, does the unthinkable. If Henry doesn’t produce an heir, the American branch of his family name will die out. Until he faces a devastating reality: Bertha is unable to bear children. The Daughter of Union County by Francine Thomas Howardįourteen years after the end of slavery, Lord Henry Hardin and his wife, Lady Bertha, enjoy an entitled life in Union County, Arkansas.
Caught in the tumult of World War I, Wall Street, union fights, and changing women’s roles, these two extraordinary women find that true fortune can’t be bought or sold. But when Faith’s father chooses Hope as his protégé, and, worse yet, both Faith and Hope fall in love with the same man, resentment and betrayal threaten their bond. Compelled by the tragic bonds of very different childhoods, they soon forge a strong alliance. When she meets Faith, Hope has faced enough loss to last a lifetime, and, like Faith, she has built an emotional wall to survive. The scrappy child of hard-working Irish and Chinese immigrants has learned to fend for herself, until a terrible disaster thrusts her into a strange, new world of privilege. Just twenty-nine miles away, on lower Manhattan’s dirty, crowded streets, Hope Lee’s world is one of poverty and desperation. Often misunderstood, she trusts few as she grows up on the family’s manicured Long Island estate. Fortune’s Daughters by Consuelo Saah Baehrįaith Simpson is born at the dawn of the twentieth century into a dynasty that gives her everything she will ever need-except her parents’ love and attention. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single disorienting sitting. Will Williams is part of Disorder, a collection of six short stories of living nightmares, chilling visions, and uncanny imagination that explore a world losing its balance in terrifying ways. Now, drifting from city to city, Will’s doing everything in his power to outrun his shadow. Starting by implicating Will in petty crimes, and escalating to offenses with serious prison terms, he’s undermined every attempt Will has made to get his life on track. A look-alike with the same tattoos and the same name has been following him. In a modern retelling of Edgar Allan Poe’s William Wilson by the author of The Old Drift, a young black man’s paranoia escalates as he is followed, challenged, and terrorized by a doppelgänger bent on sabotaging his life.Įver since high school, somebody’s been playing the echo game on Will Williams.
Will Williams (Disorder collection) by Namwali Serpell The Best Girls is part of Disorder, a collection of six short stories of living nightmares, chilling visions, and uncanny imagination that explore a world losing its balance in terrifying ways. Receiving approval only for uncomplaining sacrifice, she has resolved to take on her family’s troubles. Inspired by a true event, this powerful short story from the author of National Book Award finalist Pachinko explores the meaning of patriarchy and the cost of female silence through the eyes of a dutiful young girl.Īn excellent student from a poor, traditional family in Seoul, the narrator has absorbed the same message her whole life: Only a boy can provide the family with dignity and wealth. The Best Girls (Disorder collection) by Min Jin Lee
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