Good Dirt: A Novel

NATIONAL BESTSELLER 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 “Engrossing . . . Wilkerson masterfully weaves these threads of love loss and legacy [into] a thoroughly researched and beautifully imagined family saga.”— The New York Times 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