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Black candle women : a novel / Diane Marie Brown.

Brown, Diane Marie, (author.).

Summary:
"A warm and wry family drama with a magical twist about four generations of Black women, a family curse, and one very complicated year of heartache, miscommunication, and learning to let go. Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies. Their surprise guest forces each woman to reckon with her own past choices and mistakes. And as new truths about the curse emerge, the family is set on a collision course dating back to a Voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter--where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love..."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781525899911
  • ISBN: 1525899910
  • Physical Description: 357 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Graydon House, [2023]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes playlist and reading group guide.
"Read with Jenna"--Cover.
Subject: African American women > Fiction.
Families > Fiction.
Vodou > Fiction.
New Orleans (La.) > Fiction.
Blessing and cursing > Fiction.
Magic > Fiction.
Generations > Fiction.
Love > Fiction.
Genre: Domestic fiction.
Magic realist fiction.
Paranormal fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 34 of 35 copies available at SPARK Libraries.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 35 total copies.
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