Legend says that only girls will be born into the Dupree family. What it is less clear about is the legacy of secrets, intergenerational trauma, and passionate love stories that lay lost in the sands of time.

Teenage Tati is discovering just how hard it is to shed light on her own and her family's origin story, when her mother and grandmother are less than forthcoming in their responses to her questions. But perhaps that is because they believe that somethings are better left unexplored...

A deftly woven saga that interrogates the lives of multiple generations of black women in one family, this book is absorbing as well as informative, providing a glimpse of lives less often examined. It gets 3.5 stars.