When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their wounds, and move forward together in this heartwarming contemporary debut novel with loose parallels to beloved women from the Bible.
Women who just might--if they can only let go--find the peace they seek by holding on to one another..
A heartwarming Southern story of family and all its many complexities, The Gardins of Edin delivers a thoughtful portrayal of four women trying to hold on to their secrets.
But as she decides to take a step back, hidden truths, life-and-death circumstances, and escalating clashes finally force the Gardin women to grapple with what it means to be a family.
For years, Naomi, the matriarch who raised the sisters after their parents\' death and supported Ruth in her grief, has played peacemaker.
Martha\'s unfounded mistrust of Ruth causes her to constantly seek ways to undermine Ruth\'s decisions with the business, while Mary, trying to focus on her new restaurant that serves healthy comfort food, is dragged into the family fray by Martha.
Sisters Mary and Martha fuel the family tension.
But tensions have intensified since the death of her husband, Beau, and she feels like an outsider in the very place she wishes to belong.
Ruth runs the family\'s multimillion-dollar peanut business, a legacy of the Gardins\' formerly enslaved ancestors.
The four women of the Gardin family live side-by-side in Edin, Georgia, but residing in tight proximity doesn\'t mean everything is picture-perfect.
When the bonds in their family begin to fray, four Black women fight to preserve their legacy, heal their wounds, and move forward together in this heartwarming contemporary debut novel with loose parallels to beloved women from the Bible
