I saw a lot of rave reviews for this author's other works so when an ARC version opened up for this book, I requested for it to find out what the thrill was all about. After reading this one, I had to go back few chapters cause I can't believe the story ended that way - which is both good and bad.

Set 50 years after unfortunate events in 1964, we met the FMC already in her seventies. Sweet little grandma she is not, but time honed her to harbor secrets and truth be told she is not the only one in her retirement little community hiding one.

Plot wise, the author touched on sensitive subjects like experience of two different races during the height of the segregation era - the slurs, the white supremacists, the talks of lynching. One can't help but feel myriad of emotions goint through the motion of the harrowing experiences of those who went through with it. While this concept was really going well all throughout the story, plot holes were also observed.

1. The entire blurb was written towards an idea that FMC and her friends harbor dark secrets however, we only got to see one back story that went on and on until the end BUT eventually, has nothing to do at all with the story! I was so bummed with the twist at the end that the catharsis I was expecting suddenly came into a halt