Bebe, a bookworm with an outlandish imagination, lives a peculiarly privileged life for a Black girl during the Great Depression.
Inspired by actual events.. and brings you on a journey of many miles, perspectives, and epiphanies.
Will Bebe relinquish dreams of being the architect of her own destiny, or abandon everything she\'s ever known to reinvent herself in an unfamiliar world? Returning the Bones explores the question: How do you choose between your country, your people, and yourself? ...
A tempestuous relationship with her enigmatic boyfriend, and further challenges-both hilarious and heartbreaking-compound Bebe\'s inability to live a life of her own choosing, until an unlikely opportunity in post-war Europe arises.
Guilt over the death of a beloved family member quenches Bebe\'s ability to rebel against her father\'s suffocating expectations.
Her home life is filled with a panoply of distinctive family members, including a psychic mother, a terrifying spinster aunt who\'s having a secret affair with the local white sheriff, a renegade librarian aunt, a grandmother who might be the great-great-granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton, and Grandmother Betty, a Cherokee medicine woman who suffers no fools.
Her fearless father owns a hospital and an array of businesses, making him a keen target of the KKK.
Bebe, a bookworm with an outlandish imagination, lives a peculiarly privileged life for a Black girl during the Great Depression