R70.00
All families got secrets, but Joy’s had more than their fair share.
In stock
346 Pages, Hardback
24x16x3.5cm
This first novel draws on Marsha Hunt’s experience of growing up black in America, of the music business and of finding fame in a white-dominated world.
“All families got secrets, but Joy’s had more than their fair share. So while I’m able to tell you what she did, ain’t no use me pretending that I know why … they was just born under bad moons.”
As the Bang family gathers for Joy Bang’s funeral, Baby Palatine, the elderly woman who raised the Bang girls and who has an idealized image of the Bangs, realizes that their’s is not a perfect family.
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