Refusing to look back on her life or to acknowledge the people, places, and events that had scarred her childhood, Camilla is forced to come to terms with the truth about her past, the limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, and the dark legacy of cancer in order to save her daughter. 20,000 first printing.
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Bernice L. McFadden is the author of four national bestsellers, all published by Dutton: Sugar, The Warmest December, This Bitter Earth, and most recently Loving Donovan. Shortlisted for the Hurston/Wright Foundation Legacy Award and winner of two Black Writers Alliance Gold Pen Awards as well as an Honor Award from the American Library Association, McFadden lives in her native Brooklyn, New York.
Camilla and her husband have successful careers and a beautiful young daughter. Then she discovers a lump in her breast and realizes too late that she has turned her back on the people whose support she needs the most. Generations of women in her family, moving from a southern small town to Queens, New York, have carried the middle name Rose, and some have carried a legacy of breast cancer. But Camilla has been estranged from her unruly family since she went to college, leaving behind a drug-addicted mother, a grandmother raising scads of abandoned grandchildren, and an addled great-aunt. Ashamed of her family and her race, she lightened her skin and adopted a false background. She is living a complete lie when tragedy strikes. McFadden, author of Sugar (2000) and This Bitter Earth (2002), will enrapture readers again as she moves between the past and the present and the perspectives of different characters to tell a story of family and reconciliation. Vanessa Bush
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