Emma's Bookish Lifestyle

The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities, their lives splitting like their shared egg.  This time lapsed family saga is written with such truth and beauty you feel like you are part of the events as they happen.  The echo of the twins similarities and differences can be seen as we move into the futures of their own daughters and the intersection of their lives again. Desiree finds herself married to the darkest man she could find, in an abusive relationship and worried for the safety of herself and her daughter, finding herself back home with an old life, old love and subjecting her daughter to a far worse fate than she ever experienced while growing up their due to the colour of her skin. Stella chose the path less travel...

Every child's potential is regularly determined by a standardized measurement: their quotient (Q). Score high enough, and attend a top tier school with a golden future. Score too low, and it's off to a federal boarding school with limited prospects afterwards. The purpose? An improved society where education costs drop, teachers focus on the more promising students, and parents are happy. Elena Fairchild is a teacher at one of the state's elite schools. When her nine-year-old daughter bombs a monthly test and her Q score drops to a disastrously low level. As a teacher, Elena thought she understood the tiered educational system, but as a mother whose child is now gone, Elena's perspective is changed forever. She just wants her daughter back.  And she will do the unthinkable to make it happen. This story is impactfully written, I can tell you now that if you want to like the main protagonists in your books, this won't be for you however, if you can go beyond that and ...