Bernice L. McFadden is the author of a number of bestsellers, including Sugar, The Warmest December, This Bitter Earth, Loving Donovan, and Camilla's Roses. She is the recipient of two fiction honor awards from BCALA and a MacDowell Fellowship.
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Sherry has struggled all her life to understand who she is, where she comes from, and, most importantly, why her mother slapped her cheek one summer afternoon. The incident has haunted Sherry, and it causes her to dig into her family's past. Like many fam... SEE MORE