LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
Named a most anticipated book by New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Vogue, Boston Globe, New York magazine, People magazine, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Literary Hub
"Wonderfully ambitious.... Flournoy explores the complexity of friendship, family, and home in a voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating. I loved this book." — Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.
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FINALIST FOR THE 2025 KIRKUS PRIZE FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR 2025 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION
Named a most anticipated book by New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Vogue, Boston Globe, New York magazine, People magazine, The Millions, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, Literary Hub
"Wonderfully ambitious.... Flournoy explores the complexity of friendship, family, and home in a voice that is expansive yet intimate, humorous yet devastating. I loved this book." — Brit Bennett, author of The Vanishing Half and The Mothers
An era-defining novel about five Black women over the course of their twenty-year friendship, as they move through the dizzying and sometimes precarious period between young adulthood and midlife—in the much-anticipated second book from National Book Award finalist Angela Flournoy.
Desiree, Danielle,...