Far from the Tree

After their father’s death, sisters Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier leave their hollow lives and travel to Prosper, North Carolina, with their mother, Della, to come to terms with their pasts and their futures.

Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant are the bestselling authors of Better Than I Know Myself and Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made. Tryin’ to Sleep in the Bed You Made won the Merit Award for fiction from the black caucus of the American Library Association, the Book of the Year award from Blackboard, and the New Author of the Year Award from the Go On Girl Book Club. Virginia and Donna first met while working as models, and what should have been a rivalry ended up as a decades-long friendship. Virginia lives in New Jersey, and Donna lives in Brooklyn, New York.