A thought provoking, powerful and timely look at race and family. ⁣
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Wow, this book! I find it difficult to really describe because it weaves in so many topics. Ultimately though it is a story of family. Desiree and Stella Vignes are twins, desperate to break free of their tiny town where the lightness of your colored skin is everything. ⁣
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After making their escape the girls try to make new lives for themselves, shedding their town and leaving their mother behind. Until the day Stella leaves Desiree and their lives, which had always been converged, take wildly separate paths. ⁣One passing for white, erasing her true racial identity and the other falling in love with a dark skinned man and bearing a dark skinned child despite her own fair coloring. Yet despite their secrets and their different lives, can they truly escape the pull of family? Blood always seem to find a way to call, pulling its kin towards each other.
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This book had so many hard to read, emotional moments and the most amazing characters. I was enthralled! Oh, how I loved Jude and Reese - they could have a book unto themselves and I would devour every word. Hint, hint Ms. Bennett!