Book Summary:
\nWhen ten-year-old Eb by Freeman heard the gunshot\, time stopped. And when she saw her brother\ , Baz\, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuri es-old jar\, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.
\nThe crime was never solved &mdash\; and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England &mdash\; the case has had an enduring\, voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thin g the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers\, but when Ebby's high profile romance falls apart without any explanation\, that's exactly what they get.
\nSo Ebby flees to Franc e\, only for her past to follow her there. And as she tries to process wha t's happened\, she begins to think about the other loss her family suffere d on that day eighteen years ago &mdash\; the stoneware jar that had been in their family for generations\, brought North by an enslaved ancestor. B ut little does she know that the handcrafted piece of pottery held more th an just her family's history &mdash\; it might also hold the key to unlock ing her own future.
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