EAN: 9781982181031

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A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK Named a Best Book Pick of 2021 by Harper's Bazaar and Real Simple Named a Most Anticipated Book of Fall by People Essence New York Post PopSugar New York Newsday Entertainment Weekly Town & Country Bustle Fortune and Book Riot Told from alternating perspectives an evocative and riveting novel about the lifelong bond between two women one Black and one white whose friendship is indelibly altered by a tragic event-a powerful and poignant exploration of race in America today and its devastating impact on ordinary lives. Jen and Riley have been best friends since kindergarten. As adults they remain as close as sisters though their lives have taken different directions. Jen married young and after years of trying is finally pregnant. Riley pursued her childhood dream of becoming a television journalist and is poised to become one of the first Black female anchors of the top news channel in their hometown of Philadelphia. But the deep bond they share is severely tested when Jen's husband a city police officer is involved in the shooting of an unarmed Black teenager. Six months pregnant Jen is in freefall as her future her husband's freedom and her friendship with Riley are thrown into uncertainty. Covering this career-making story Riley wrestles with the implications of this tragic incident for her Black community her ambitions and her relationship with her lifelong friend. Like Tayari Jones's An American Marriage and Jodi Picoult's Small Great Things We Are Not Like Them explores complex questions of race and how they pervade and shape our most intimate spaces in a deeply divided world. But at its heart it's a story of enduring friendship-a love that defies the odds even as it faces its most difficult challenges.

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