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A searing novel by the author of Meeting of the Waters captures the personal insecurities, mistakes, and complicated relationships of mothers and daughters as it follows the lives of three generations of women, including Grace, a modern, self-made woman determined to avoid the errors of her mother, who had sacrificed her own needs for her children. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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After a series of stressful personal transitions, Grace Jefferson finds herself in a new house in a new city and in a new career for which she feels dangerously unsuited: a stay-at-home mom. An educated and accomplished modern woman, a child of the Civil Rights dream, she is caught between the only two models of mothering she has ever known'a sharecropping grandmother who abandoned her children to save herself and a mother who sacrificed all to save her kids'as she struggles to find a middle ground. But as the days pass and the pressures mount, Grace begins to catch herself in small acts of abandonment that she fears may foretell a future she is powerless to prevent . . . or perhaps secretly seeks. Jump at the Sun is a novel about an isolating suburban life and the continuing legacy of slavery, about generational change and the price of living the dream for which our parents fought. In her bold and fearless voice, Kim McLarin explores both the highs and lows of being a mother, and how breaking the cycle of suffocation and regret, while infuriatingly difficult, is absolutely necessary.
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