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5 Stars
368 Pages
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine Books
Release Date: January 28, 2025
Genre: Fiction (Adult), General Fiction (Adult), Historical Fiction, Women’s Fiction
Ebony Freeman has had her share of sorrows. As a young girl of ten, she witnessed the brutal murder of her older brother Baz. After being devastated when Henry, her groom, did not show up for their wedding, she agrees to join her friend Hannah in France. She is staying on the property and her only task is to greet new guests. Imagine her shock when Henry steps out of a cab with another woman.
Moses was a stoneware potter in the 1800s. The Freemans had one of his jars through six generations. Ebby has lived with sorrow and survivor’s guilt most of her life. Can she finally find peace?
The book has a steady pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. The timeline moves from the present to the past. Some of the timeline occurs during the COVID pandemic and lockdown. If you like generational fiction, you will enjoy reading this one.
