This is an example of a multigenerational story, with many different timelines, done well. For a story of such breadth it’s really quite short, which felt refreshing. The characters in this novel experience some brutal tragedies, and yet the tone is overall quite hopeful. This is the story of the North family. Hazel North married Myron in the 1940s, just before he enlisted to fight in the war. Myron built Hazel a house, brick by brick, in the historic Black suburb of Douglas outside of […]