Yesteryear by Caro Clair Burke

This jury is out. I was loving this book but the end just kind of went haywire I think.  I found it hard to follow and a bit confusing, but perhaps that was the intent. I need to listen to the NYTimes Book Club podcast about this novel. And I will.

In the meantime, I do recommend it for a thought-provoking read with lots of themes and issues.

Would be a GREAT book club read in my estimation.

Kin by Tayari Jones

Another great read - two in a row!  This book by an author I have read and liked before, tells the story of two "sisters" who really are not sisters at all - biologically. But they share a lot in common and feel like "kin."

Again, from Amazon:

Vernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother's death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners, aspiration, and inequality. Annie, abandoned by her mother as a child and fixated on the idea of finding her and filling the bottomless hole left by her absence, sets off on a journey that will take her into a world of peril and adversity, as well as love and adventure, culminating in a battle for her life.

A novel about mothers and daughters, friendship and sisterhood, and the complexities of being a woman in the American South,