In 1950s Honeysuckle, Louisiana, Annie and Vernice — Niecy — grow up as motherless cradle friends and each other's first family. Niecy is raised toward college and a respectable marriage; Annie sets out to find the mother said to be in Memphis. Tayari Jones's Kirkus Prize winner is a Southern novel about friendship, class, loyalty, and who counts as kin when blood does not stay.
“Nobody would for one second think to call me shy if I stood next to Niecy — who has been a young lady since the day she was born.”
