Fallen Grace by Sadeqa JohnsonMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Takes place in segregated Virginia in the 1950s. Bubbles got pregnant as a teenager and out of wedlock. Her father is a pastor and to protect HIS reputation, she was set to a home for "wayward" girls (exactly like the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland). At the "home", they take the infants away quickly after birth. Bubbles is intent on a different path. She stuck up a friendship with another girl there and together they escaped.
Bubbles then faces betrayal by the man she loved, her parents, and the girl who was a bit of a friend. After she sees her father being a hypocrite, does she decide to stand up for herself and her newborn daughter. Powerful read.
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