Like their mother, Della, and their grandmother before her, sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier share a bloodline and proud African-American heritage-but little else. Struggling Manhattan actress Ronnie has come home to Buffalo for her father's funeral, only to find a family fraying at the seams and an unexpected windfall to be shared with her sister. In Ronnie's opinion, Celeste already has it all as a doctor's wife and the mother of willful Niki, a promising young chef. But when the sisters journey to their newly inherited North Carolina family homestead, the startling truth about Celeste's perfect life and Della's murky past begins to emerge. Now, faced with age-old secrets and an uncertain future, the two diverse women unexpectedly find themselves on common ground at last.With deft description and dialogue that rings hauntingly true, DeBerry and Grant vividly portray four female generations of an African American family in a poignant, compelling novel that celebrates the universal bond that can be strained-but ultimately never broken. AUTHORBIO: VIRGINIA DEBERRY and DONNA GRANT are the bestselling authors of Tryin' to Sleep in the Bed You Made, which won the Merit Award for fiction from the black caucus of the American Library Association, the Book of the Year award from Blackboard, and the New Author of the Year Award from the Go On Girl Book Club. Virginia and Donna first met while working as models, and what should have been a rivalry ended up a decades-long friendship.

Virginia lives in New Jersey, and Donna lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband.