TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brown,Diane Marie
TI  - Black candle women: a novel 
SN  - 9781525899911
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Toronto, Ontario, Canada
PB  - Graydon House
KW  - African American women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Vodou
KW  - Blessing and cursing
KW  - Magic
KW  - Generations
KW  - Love
KW  - New Orleans (La.)
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Magic realist fiction
KW  - Paranormal fiction
KW  - Novels
N1  - Includes playlist and reading group guide
N2  - Follows four generations of the Montrose family, who have been living with a curse that leaves any person they fall in love with dead, stemming back to a Voodoo sorceress in 1950s New Orleans' French Quarter; "Generations of Montrose women--Augusta, Victoria, Willow--have lived together in their quaint two-story bungalow in California for years. They keep to themselves, never venture far from home, and their collection of tinctures and spells is an unspoken bond between them. But when seventeen-year-old Nickie Montrose brings home a boy for the first time, their quiet lives are thrown into disarray. For the other women have been withholding a secret from Nickie that will end her relationship before it's even begun: the decades-old family curse that any person they fall in love with dies. For each member of the household, revealing this truth to Nickie also means reckoning with their own past choices and mistakes. And as new questions about long-held family beliefs emerge, the women are set on a collision course dating back to a voodoo shop in 1950s New Orleans's French Quarter--where a hidden story in a mysterious book may just hold the answers they seek in life and in love..."--
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