![]() ![]() She is a Kimbilio Fellow and teaches in the MFA program at Drexel University. Sadeqa Johnson is the award-winning author of And Then There Was Me, Second House From the Corner, Love in a Carry-on Bag and Yellow Wife. Her accolades include winning the National Book Club Conference Award, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award, and the USA Best Book Award for Best Fiction. But William hails from one of DC’s elite wealthy Black families, and his parents don’t let just anyone into their fold. With their stories colliding in the most unexpected of ways, Ruby and Eleanor will both make decisions that shape the trajectory of their lives. ![]() When she meets the handsome William Pride at Howard University, they fall madly in love. ![]() ![]() From the award-winning author of Yellow Wife comes a daring, beautiful, and redemptive novel 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.ġ950s 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. Eleanor Quarles arrives in Washington, DC, with ambition and secrets. ![]()
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