African American Book Club - In-person

Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown

Join us for a discussion of Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown.

This group is associated with the Marilyn Praisner J. Library, and all are welcome.

Print copies of Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown will be available beginning October 1, 2024.

Black Candle Women is available as an eBook on Libby, and Hoopla. It is also available as an eAuidiobook on Libby and Hoopla. 

"Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies. For each member of the household, revealing this truth to Nickie also means reckoning with their own past choices and mistakes. And as new questions about long-held family beliefs emerge, the women are set on a collision course dating back to a voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter--where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love..." -- MCPL Catalog

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