"All families got secrets, but Joy's had more than their fair share. So while I'm able to tell you what she did, ain't no use me pretending that I know why ... they was just born under bad moons."
This is the story of Joy Bang and her sisters, three singers who dream of a glittering future that briefly, too briefly is theirs. When Joy dies unexpectedly, the floodgates of Baby Palatine's memory are opened. Foster mother to the sisters from their childhood, she remembers the hopes and dreams which fuelled their meteoric rise. But as the family gathers for the funeral, Baby is forced to acknowledge that as well as the Joy she loved and worshipped, there was another Joy she had never known ...
A compelling story of jealousy and love, tragedy and deception, and of growing up black in a white world, this is Marsha Hunt's powerful first novel.
- ISBN10 0099837005
- ISBN13 9780099837008
- Publish Date 2 May 1991 (first published 12 April 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 October 1992
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Cornerstone
- Imprint Arrow Books Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 400
- Language English