WOMEN OF STRENGTH & SURVIVAL – FICTION

Angela Flournoy’s The Wilderness: A Novel is the story of five Black women navigating two decades of friendship, from young adulthood into midlife. Desiree, Danielle, January, Monique, and Nakia move through love, family, ambition, and upheaval amid the increasing volatility of modern American life in an exploration of the profound connections of friendship over a lifetime. Set in the 1960s before Roe, Laney Katz Becker’s In the Family Way: A Novel follows a group of suburban housewives as they navigate marriages, secrets, and pregnancies – both wanted and unwanted. When one woman takes in a pregnant teen, things become complicated, and the women struggle with their complex feelings about being wives, mothers, and women with their own dreams and ambitions. Leila Mottley’s The Girls Who Grew Big: A Novel follows the lives of Adela, Emory, and Simone, a group of outcast teenage moms as they navigate the miracle of motherhood and the paradox of girlhood in small-town panhandle Florida. Full of heart, and life and hope, their stories offer an explosive new perspective on what it means to be a young woman and a mom when you’re still really a kid yourself. In Nanda Reddy’s A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl, Maya is beginning an ordinary day in an upscale Atlanta suburb when her husband asks: Who is Sunny? Suddenly, the story of her childhood journey to America from Guyana – and the events that forced an innocent and scared Maya to leave her past behind and shroud herself in layers of secrets – come rushing back.

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Buy The Wilderness: A Novel – Flournoy

Buy In the Family Way: A Novel – Katz Becker

Buy A Girl Within a Girl Within a Girl – Reddy