One Blood A Novel
One Blood A Novel by Denene Millner, published by Tor Publishing Group on September 5, 2023, is a richly woven narrative that delves into the lives of three generations of women connected by love, ambition, and family secrets. This edition spans 432 pages and is presented in English, offering readers a glimpse into the complexities of family life against the backdrop of historical events.
The story introduces Grace, Delores, and Rae, each navigating their unique challenges and aspirations. Grace grapples with her identity after losing her grandmother and moving to a new environment, while Delores, known as Lolo, sacrifices her dreams for survival and family. Rae, Lolo’s daughter, faces her own revelations about adoption and motherhood, prompting a deeper exploration of familial bonds. This novel captures the essence of women’s experiences from the Great Migration to the civil rights movement, providing insight into their struggles and resilience.
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A People Magazine Pick.
“In delicious, decadent prose, Denene Millner does what few authors can–compose a sprawling multigenerational tale that is necessary American reading. One Blood sings the song of the South in a voice that is heartbreaking, hopeful, and resilient. A masterpiece.”
–Tara M. Stringfellow, National Bestselling author of Memphis
Join New York Times bestselling author Denene Millner as she explores the lives of three generations of women tied together by love, hope, dreams, ambition…and family secrets in this epic novel.
Meet Grace: raised by her beloved grandmother in tension-filled, post-segregation Virginia, Grace is barely a teenager when she loses her grandmother. Shellshocked, she is shipped up North to live with her formidably ambitious Aunt Hattie―a woman who firmly left behind her Southern roots in pursuit of upward mobility. Feeling like a fish out of water in the high society world filled with fancy teas and coveted debutante balls, Grace’s only place of comfort is with the smart, handsome son of one of the society’s grand dames.
Meet Delores: beautiful, intelligent and fierce, Delores a.k.a. Lolo has never had it easy. Once she makes it north, she puts aside her dream of being a model to do what she has to do to survive as a woman with little money and no mooring: get married and have a family of her own. When secrets start to spill out and she and her family slowly begin to unravel, Lolo is willing to do whatever it takes to keep her dream intact and those she loves together.
Meet Rae: when Lolo’s headstrong daughter, Rae discovers that she is adopted, it’s just one secret among others that her family is keeping. When Rae finds out that she’s about to become a mother herself, she knows that there is an important reckoning that must be faced about herself and her two mothers.
Potent, poetic, powerful, told with deep love, and spanning from the Great Migration to the civil unrest of the 1960s to the quest for women’s equality in early 2000s, Denene Millner’s beautifully wrought novel explores three women’s intimate, and often complicated, struggle with what it truly means to be family.
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