If I tell you how this book shook me. I was already a fan of Tayari’s work from An American Marriage and I knew from the synopsis that this would be different, but oh, I was really not ready.
There is a reason why this book has been the talk of book threads and book influencers. It truely is outstanding. An incredible insight into friendship, love, loss and how do we live with what we have never had. The characters are full the writing , nothing short of stunning, the book is completely addictive. I couldn’t put it down and I was ready to read it all again immediately. It is the book I didn’t know I needed to read until I read it.
The girls are inseparable, bound by a friendship far deeper than sisterhood. But this is the American south in the 1950s. Black girls like Vernice and Annie have to fight for every opportunity they can, and neither one can build the future they hope for in Honeysuckle. Gradually, inevitably, the girls drift apart. Vernice pursues her education; Annie is lured by the promise of a heady first love affair and a growing obsession with finding her mother. Tayari Jones returns with an exuberant, richly told story about mothers, daughters, and a lifelong friendship that is as dangerous as it is unbreakable.