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Black candle women, a novel, Diane Marie Brown

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Black candle women, a novel, Diane Marie Brown

Language

eng

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fiction

Main title

Black candle women

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Oclc number

1374072962

Responsibility statement

Diane Marie Brown

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"Propulsive and poignant, Black Candle Women concocts an intoxicating potion of warmth, wisdom, and wonder."--Ava DuVernayA warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go. Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, the family is set on a collision course dating back to a Voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter--where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love ... "Richly imagined and elegantly told, with plenty of satisfying secrets, heartaches, and twists."--Sadeqa Johnson, international bestselling author of Yellow Wife and The House of Eve

Target audience

adult

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