Shade Tree

Winner of the 2020 Guernica Prize for Literary FictionWhen the lies of thirteen-year-old Ellie Turner cause a black man''s lynching in 1930s Florida, her younger sister Mavis begins to question the family''s long-held beliefs about race. At the same time, the novel focuses on the courageous story of Sliver, a black midwife whose love for her grandson forces her to flee to Washington DC with the ch...