A story that spans generations and makes you gasp at times. Three parts, three Black women all united by blood and family. Grace's story will break your heart, the cruelty and suffering will haunt you. The second part is Delores's story - LoLo - a woman who believes a woman’s role is to have babies, keep a spotless house, and keep her husband happy. The path she takes to have her husband and children is full of suffering and you stand with her although at times you don't always agree with her choices or actions. The final part is Rae's story, a woman who tries to be everything - wife, mother, lover - but added to this she also runs the house and earns the money. Three women, three different stories but all of them are linked to each other by motherhood and intergenerational trauma. There is very little joy or light in this novel but the bond between them, between their stories is special. Grace's story will stay with you - as I said before, it will haunt you. As for LoLo, you will feel such admiration for her strength, how family for her is everything, and how it always comes first - even before herself. As for Rae, you cheer her on as she tries to break the stereotype, as she tries to be not just a wife and mother, but also a woman on her own terms. I enjoyed how all of the stories were bound together but I would have loved to have known more about Grace, although after reading the author's afterword, I can see why we are told no more about her. Her story is not ours.