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Memphis

by Tara M. Stringfellow

Three generations of North women navigate love, loss, and legacy in Memphis, from the brutal realities of Jim Crow to the upheavals of the civil rights era. Stringfellow weaves a multigenerational saga steeped in Southern Black history, where family secrets and supernatural elements intertwine with the weight of inherited trauma. A lush, haunting debut about the stories we inherit and the ones we must tell ourselves.

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