Griot audio

Read by Kecia Lewis

Lutishia Lovely returns with a compelling and provocative new novel where the clash between personal freedoms and religious convictions become a matter of life and death. When eighteen-year-old Raina Reed is given an ultimatum her family or her first love she chooses the latter, leaves the rigid cult community shes grown up in and finds herself shunned, ex-communicated ghosted. Not seeing her parents is tolerable. Raina is happy for more time with her sweet, talented boyfriend Bryce, and enjoys the freedom found in living with him, his free-spirited cousin, Jackie, and Jackie's mom Valerie, a struggling attorney. But her heart breaks at the thought of not seeing her baby sister. Abby is ten years younger and they've never spent one day apart until now. While Raina embraces her new life, she can't shake her concern about Abby, especially when a lingering illness worsens and her parents refuse to seek medical help. Raina is determined to break through the religious rules that stand in the way of her sisters well-being. Drawing on her new family and support system, including chanting, angel-card reading Jackie, justice-seeking Valerie, loving Bryce, and his eccentric grandmother, Raina finds her own kind of faith, one built on a love strong enough to move mountains

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