The Sisterhood of Blackberry Corner: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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Filled with compassion, humor, and tenacity in the face of almost insurmountable odds, here is a rich, inspiring tale of friendship and family, sisterhood and mother love . . . and of finding grace where you least expect it.

Canaan Creek, South Carolina, in the 1950s is a tiny town where the close-knit African-Americancommunity is united by long-term friendships and church ties. Bonnie Wilder has livedhere, on Blackberry Corner, all her life, and would be content but for her deep desireto have a child. She and her husband Naz cannot conceive, and he refuses to the support of her outrageous best friend Thora—to whom Bonnie tells everything—can’ t help fill the emptiness inside her.

Then Naz finds a blanketed infant on thebanks of Canaan Creek, and suddenly Bonnie’s life is transformed. She has found hercalling. Together with Thora and the rest of the hilarious, tough, and all-too-humanwomen from her church group, Bonnie creates an underground railroad for unwantedbabies. But one of these precious gifts will come back to haunt her: a deceptionbegun in good faith comes full circle, ultimately forcing Bonnie to find the courageto confront a difficult truth at the center of her own life.