JJ’s newfound wealth forces everyone to consider what more they want and deserve from life than what they already have-and how they might go about getting it. And Don, Sylvia’s undeserving but charming husband, just won’t stop hanging around. The decline of the town’s once-thriving furniture industry has made Ava’s husband Henry grow distant and frustrated.Īva’s mother Sylvia has put her own life on hold as she caters to and meddles with those around her, trying to fill the void left by her absent son. But he finds that the people he once knew and loved have changed, just as he has.Īva is now married, and wants a baby more than anything. JJ Ferguson has returned home to Pinewood, North Carolina to build his dream home and to woo his high school sweetheart, Ava. The Great Gatsby brilliantly recast in the contemporary South: a powerful first novel about an extended African-American family and their colliding visions of the American Dream
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