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FINALIST FOR THE 2026 RAKUTEN KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE (LITERARY FICTION) A GOODREADS HOTTEST DEBUT NOVEL OF 2025 A sharply funny and tender story about two strangers with only one thing in common: their father. After her father abandoned Mickey and her mother for his new family, Mickey...

This story involves adoption, searching for roots, passing for white, white supremacy, effects of prejudice on people of color. But it is, above all, a love story—love overcoming every obstacle. In 1932, during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl eras, an infant girl is abandoned by her mother, an unmarried teenager on the way to California with her destitute Oklahoma family. At the Clark Place Dairy near Mackenzie, Texas, she leaves a note giving the infant's name as "Susanna" and asking Mrs. Lupe Clark to raise her.