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Grace

by Natashia Deón

"A murdered mother watches over the daughter she never got to raise."

Naomi, a runaway from an Alabama plantation, narrates from beyond death as she shadows the daughter she left behind in the final years of slavery. Ferocious, lyrical and devastating.

Worth knowing

For readers of Beloved and The Underground Railroad.

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