Thanks to Counterpoint Press for the free advance copy of this book.

THE REVISIONERS follows two women from three time periods - Josephine, both during and after her enslavement, and 100 years later, her descendant Ava. Josephine, in 1925, lives on land she used to work, and strikes up an uneasy friendship with her new white woman neighbor. Ava, in 2015, is a single mother who moves in with her white grandmother - fraught, as she is the mother of a black boy around an old woman slowly losing her grip on time and reality.

Y'all, I don't even know how to properly write a review of this book. It is fantastic. The three story threads weave together beautifully, making time bend in on itself. The women are extraordinary, each survivors in their own way.

There is a slight magical element to this story, which puts this book almost directly in conversation with THE WATER DANCER. Both explore time and memory and how racism drains a community, but THE REVISIONERS puts women's power at the center. It's not only their powerful need to be free, but their relationships with friends, family, and their own selves.

I already need to reread this book. I can't wait for everyone else to read it, too.