The House of Eve Ham the ant The Mourning a lost firend

The Mourning a lost firend

preparing for children

Samira and Safiya Zayd Al-Mansur are twenty-five-year-old twins with nothing in common

guided by the resilience of her mother's story

The House of Eve Ham the ant The Mourning a lost firendFrom the award winning author of Yellow Wife, a daring and redemptive novel set in 1950s Philadelphia and Washington, DC, that explores what it means to be a woman and a mother, and how much one is willing to sacrifice to achieve her greatest goal. 1950s Philadelphia: fifteen year old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college, in spite of having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising a daughter.