A Stylist Best Book of 2020You're free to decide your future. But how do you escape the ghosts of the past?A stunning debut novel with echoes of Yaa Gyasi's Homegoing and Sara Collins' The Confessions of Frannie LangtonThe pale-skinned, black-eyed baby is a bad omen. That's one thing the people on the old plantation are sure of. The other is that Miss Rue - midwife, healer, crafter of curses - will know what to do.But for once Rue doesn't know. Times have changed since her mother Miss May Belle ...