Children of the waters
Subtitle: a novel
By: Carleen Brice.
Publisher: One World Ballantine Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9780345499073
Subjects: Sisters -- Fiction; Race relations -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Estranged from her teenage son, Trish Taylor is in the midst of salvaging the remnants of her life when she uncovers a shocking secret: her sister is alive. For years Trish believed that her mother and infant sister had died in a car accident. But the truth is that her mother fatally overdosed and that Trish's grandparents put the baby girl up for adoption because her father was black. After years of drawing on the strength of her black ancestors, Billie Cousins is shocked to discover that she was adopted. Just as surprising, after finally overcoming a series of health struggles, she is pregnant-a dream come true for Billie but a nightmare for her sweetie, Nick, and for her mother, both determined to protect Billie from anything that may disrupt her well-being.