5 Stars
336 Pages
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group – Ballantine, Ballantine, Bantam
Release Date: June 3, 2025
Genre: Fiction (Adult), General Fiction (Adult), Multicultural Interest, Women’s Fiction, Ancestry, Missing Persons
Six Black teenage girls go missing between 1963 and 1965 in North Carolina. No one seems to care. The authorities believe they just ran away. Sydney travels with her mother and sister from their home in California to settle her grandmother’s estate. She comes across a picture that was always hidden. When she first found the picture as a teenager, she asked her grandmother about it. Her grandmother said, “we don’t talk about Carol.” That left Sydney with more questions than answers. Sydney begins a historical search for Carol to find out who she was and why no one talks about her.
The story has a steady pace, the characters are developed, and it is written in the first-person point of view. Although this is a work of fiction, the topic of missing women and girls needs to be addressed.
