Magazine, The Root, Popsugar, Bustle, and many more! No Instagram images were found.About the Book A young mother finds refuge and friendship at a boardinghouse in 1960s Memphis, Tennessee, where family encompasses more than just blood and hidden truths can bury you or set you free.īook Synopsis Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Ms. Book Review: The Writing Retreat April 27, 2023.Book Review: The Salt Grows Heavy April 28, 2023.Book Review: Bright and Deadly Things May 3, 2023.Search Search for: Follow What Jess Reads on What’s New 🎧: Highly recommend the audio version! The narrator is the perfect voice for Sara!Ī huge thank you to HTP Books for my gifted copy! The Two Lives of Sara is utterly brilliant and I encourage you to pick up a copy ASAP! I hardly ever cry while reading, but there are a handful of authors who can make that happen and West is one of them. Her journey in navigating Memphis and her new community pulls the reader in and vividly paints a series of events that will fascinate, fill you with hope, and break your heart. Sara is a captivating main character with a complicated outlook on life, trust, and love. Along with an outstanding cast of secondary characters, the reader slowly unpacks these secrets.
It’s clear that Sara has a history she wants to keep hidden. Walking into this story, I wasn’t sure where things were headed. Fast forward to The Two Lives of Sara and West is still breaking my heart with her poetic writing abilities. I first discovered West through her debut, Saving Ruby King, and knew I needed to read anything she published.
If there is one author I can trust to bring out all the emotions in me while reading it’s Catherine Adel West. Romance blooms between them, but secrets from Mama Sugar’s past threaten their newfound happiness with Sara and Jonas soon caught in the crosshairs, leading Sara to make decisions that will reshape the rest of their lives. Black literature and music provide the stories and soundtrack for these turbulent and hopeful times, and Sara finds herself drawn in by conversations of education, politics and a brighter tomorrow with Jonas, a local school teacher. Across the country, people like Martin Luther King Jr. Like many cities in early 1960s America, Memphis is still segregated, but change is in the air. She is welcomed with open arms by Mama Sugar, a kindly matriarch and owner of the popular boarding house The Scarlet Poplar. Sara King has nothing, save for her secrets and the baby in her belly, as she boards the bus to Memphis, hoping to outrun her past in Chicago. THE TWO LIVES OF SARA | Catherine Adel West
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