New Release, Plus Activism & Radical Self-Care

Winslow returns to West Mills, North Carolina, a town in 1975 that is resistant to racial progress and still segregated. There, three siblings are found murdered in their own home. The white and Black sides of the town are hungry to know the truth of what happened, filling in gaps in knowledge with gossip, but the white police don’t seem much interested. A half sibling of the slain people, Olympus “Lymp” Seymore, stands accused of their murder, an accusation that seems steeped in police laziness and stereotyping. Because of this, Ms. Jo Wright, Lymp’s childhood sweetheart and fiancé, sets out to clear her future husband’s name — even if she has a little doubt herself. As her amateur investigation continues, Jo collects all the tea of the town, finding out some deep, dark secrets along the way. I think fans of Attica Locke’s books (especially Bluebird, Bluebird) would like this.

In a rural village in India in 1947, three daughters of a doctor live tucked away safely from the danger of a changing country. The sisters live harmoniously, despite their vastly different personalities — Priya wishes to follow in their father’s footsteps and be a doctor even though she is a girl, Deepa wants to use her beauty to marry into a well-to-do family, and Jamini is the deceptively simple but talented quilt maker. Once their father is killed during a riot and Deepa falls for a Muslim, the violence of the partition of India is felt firsthand by the family.