About the book
It is the summer of 1987 in Swift River, a declining New England mill town, and in Essie Chambers's debut novel Diamond Newberry is learning to drive. Her father, Pop, vanished seven years ago, and since then mother and daughter have hitchhiked everywhere. She is teased about her weight, and since Pop's disappearance no other Black person lives in town. Ma now wants Pop declared dead in law so the family can claim his life insurance, win their house back from the bank and move on. Then Diamond receives a letter from a relative she has never met. The novel won the Ernest J. Gaines Award.
Jenna Bush Hager chose it for Read With Jenna, her book club list on the Today Show.
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