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Bored and restless with her life and relationships, Venus Johnson, a thirty-four-year-old African-American woman, discovers new strength and power when she decides to quit coaxing her hair straight and proudly adopts a natural hairstyle that forces her to confront her personal goals, dreams, and id

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"From acclaimed African-American novelist Trisha Thomas comes the story of Bailey Dowery, a Black dressmaker in 1950s Oklahoma whose gift of "second sight" pulls her into a dangerous small-town scandal involving a society wedding, a murder, and shocking family secrets"--