2019 book 142

Margaret Wilkerson Sexton's The Revisioners
The Revisioners is the story of a woman in modern day New Orleans, a biracial woman who goes, with her black son, to live with and take care of her ailing, rich, white grandmother. It's also the story of the woman's great-great-something-grandmother, who was born a slave and built a new life for herself--until new neighbors come and complicate things. And mostly it's the story of families, the stories we tell ourselves, and racial and class tensions in the South. A bittersweet and moving story. A-.