Grown Women

I'm so happy I stumbled upon this 2024 debut while browsing because I ate it up! This multigenerational family saga begins when a cash-strapped and very pregnant young woman named Charlotte lands in Nashville to start a new life with the soon-to-arrive daughter she does not want to have. No plot summary can do this justice, but I loved it for its realistic and emotionally resonant exploration of race, class, ambivalent parenthood, resentment, tragedy, and redemption through four generations of a Black southern family. This was excellent on audio, as narrated by Karen Chilton, but I switched to print at the end so I could find out what happened faster.