'Tara Stringfellow will be an author to watch for years to come . . . A stellar debut'

Jacqueline Woodson, bestselling author of Red at the Bone

'Memphis is an American epic, a tribute to life in all of its sorrow and joyful resilience' 

Chloe Benjamin, bestselling author of The Immortalists 

Hazel was nine months pregnant when her husband was lynched by his Memphis police squad. 

Miriam had to leave her violent marriage for the sake of her two girls.

August turned her back on her dreams so she could provide for her family.

But these extraordinary women of the North family also fry green tomatoes and gut catfish and tuck their children in at night and do hair and sing all the while. 

And now Joan is back where it all began....MEMPHIS. She can't change her families past...but can she change their future? 

Memphis is a celebration of the enduring strength of female bonds, of what we pass down, from mother to daughter. Epic in scope yet intimate in detail, it is a vivid portrait of three generations of a Southern black family, as well as an ode to the city they call home.