Seven Daughters of Dupree - audiobook
Seven Daughters of Dupree - audiobook
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Transcendent. Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls For fans of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois comes a sweeping epic of seven generations of Black women, the secrets passed from mother to daughter, and the extraordinary resilience that carries one family across centuries.Its 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, refuses to tell her, and her grandmother Gladys is just as determined to keep the past buriedincluding the truth about why she fled Lands End, Alabama, in 1953. Unbeknownst to Tati, the family has been cursed with a mysterious malediction: the Dupree women will only ever give birth to daughters. With each daughters arrival, the course of her mothers life is irrevocably changed. In 1917, Jubis attempt to pass for white ends abruptly when she gives birth to Ruby. In 1934, Rubys fierce desire to be loved changes the course of the family once again. And in 1980, a single night alters Nadias future forever. The Seven Daughters of Dupree reveals how trauma, love, and hard-won resilience reverberate from one generation to the next. As Tati pieces together the truth about her familyand herselfshe discovers that the Dupree womens ultimate inheritance may not be the curse that has followed them for generations, but the strength that has carried them through.
Transcendent. Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of City of Girls For fans of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois comes a sweeping epic of seven generations of Black women, the secrets passed from mother to daughter, and the extraordinary resilience that carries one family across centuries.Its 1995, and fourteen-year-old Tati is determined to uncover the identity of her father. But her mother, Nadia, refuses to tell her, and her grandmother Gladys is just as determined to keep the past buriedincluding the truth about why she fled Lands End, Alabama, in 1953. Unbeknownst to Tati, the family has been cursed with a mysterious malediction: the Dupree women will only ever give birth to daughters. With each daughters arrival, the course of her mothers life is irrevocably changed. In 1917, Jubis attempt to pass for white ends abruptly when she gives birth to Ruby. In 1934, Rubys fierce desire to be loved changes the course of the family once again. And in 1980, a single night alters Nadias future forever. The Seven Daughters of Dupree reveals how trauma, love, and hard-won resilience reverberate from one generation to the next. As Tati pieces together the truth about her familyand herselfshe discovers that the Dupree womens ultimate inheritance may not be the curse that has followed them for generations, but the strength that has carried them through.
| Kategoria: | Obcojęzyczne |
| Język: | Angielski |
| Zabezpieczenie: | brak |
| ISBN: | 978-1-6681-1765-1 |