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'I love a novel this much maybe just once or twice a year.' - Curtis Sittenfeld, author of RODHAM and ROMANTIC COMEDY
'Told with warmth and humor by a memorable, irrepressible heroine.' - Rumaan Alam, author of LEAVE THE WORLD BEHIND
What if the price of moving forward is losing…
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I love how Essie Chambers takes her time and let's you really get to know her characters in this book. You see the world she paints through so many eyes, but it Is though Diamond's that we learn the plight of a Black "girl of size" in a small, all-white town. Diamond is so real that I actually looked up the author to see what they had in common. The book starts out with a mystery that made my heart ache a little. The letters we read reveal family secrets and we become the detectives, examining each clue with hopeful…
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