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2019 Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year long-listed

Sibert Medal winner

Daughters of Muscadine: Stories Cover:Paperback the familial love of hisTwo events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia. The daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their race and are also estranged from those they love. A remorseful woman