With a charismatic cast of characters, The Two Lives of Sara is an emotional and unforgettable story of hope, the limitations of resilience and unexpected love. Romance blooms between them, but secrets from Mama Sugar's past threaten their newfound happiness and lead Sara to make decisions that will reshape the rest of their lives. Black literature and music provide the stories and soundtrack for these turbulent and hopeful times, and Sara finds herself drawn in by conversations of education, politics and a brighter tomorrow with Jonas, a local schoolteacher. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King Jr. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boardinghouse The Scarlet Poplar. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. In 1960s Memphis, a young mother finds refuge in a boardinghouse where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free. Taking place in 1960s Memphis, The Two Lives of Sara is about a woman with nothing but secrets and a baby in her belly who leaves Chicago to outrun her past. "An utterly absorbing and dazzling novel about the stories we tell to stay alive and the secrets we keep to protect ourselves." - Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last Story of Mina Lee Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more! Description Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms.
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I’m not going to give away any spoilers, but while I didn’t really see the ending coming, the conclusion seemed a bit too easy for the buildup. I had the most issues with the serial killer/mystery part of the story. I really liked the mix of anorexia and ghosts, the metaphor of holding on to your loss as a ghost companion. However, in Yovanoff’s hands, most of those elements work really well together. You wouldn’t think it would work, and you’d be right. This book is quite the mix of genres: a murder mystery, a ghost story, an issue book, a grief and loss story. Somehow, all three of those things - Finny, Lillian and the killer - are connected, and maybe by figuring out how, Hannah will be able to let the past go. And young girls are being murdered, which means the whole town is on edge. And ever since then, she’s been haunting Hannah, hanging out, commenting on her life, and because of that, Hannah hasn’t been able let go of her grief and move on.īut things are changing this summer: Hannah’s become interested in Finny Boone, a delinquent and a poor student whom she’s known since kindergarten but never really paid attention to. Sixteen-year-old Hannah’s friend Lillian slowly killed herself through anorexia, finally dying about six months ago. It’s a job Deputy Director James Greer can only trust to one man-Jack Ryan. With the East German secret police closing in, someone will have to go to behind the Berlin Wall to investigate the potential defector. It’s an offer they can’t pass up…if it’s genuine, but the risks are too great to blindly stumble into a deal. In East Berlin, a mysterious figure contacts the CIA with an incredible offer-invaluable details of his government’s espionage plans in return for asylum. The Nighthawk is the most advanced fighting machine in the world and the Soviets will do anything to get their hands on its secrets. In this previously untold adventure, a young Jack Ryan goes behind the Iron Curtain to seek the truth about a potential Soviet defector in the most shocking entry in Tom Clancy's #1 New York Times bestselling series.Ī top secret F117 aircraft crashes into the Nevada desert. |