Good Dirt

The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Black Cake a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot time stopped. And when she saw her brother Baz lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar life as Ebby knew it shattered as well. The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an enduring voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers but when Ebby's high profile romance falls apart without any explanation that's exactly what they get. So Ebby flees to France only for her past to follow her there. And as she tri