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The Exception to the Rule

by Christina Lauren (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: adult-fiction, fiction, released-2024, romance, series, currently-reading

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May 07, 2026 04:29PM

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When We Were Birds by Ayanna Lloyd Banwo

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‘You putting me out, Ma?’ He can’t bear to turn around. He don’t want to see the answer in her eyes. ‘I make you. You is mine. But if you leave this house to go and live in town, you not coming back.’

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“She had been running away from her mother her whole life, and in the end it was her mother who left her.”
― Maisy Card, These Ghosts Are Family

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“Did all white people secretly have some strange antebellum or colonial fantasy? Was there a part of her that would have gotten off on the idea of being a mistress of a big house? If she were alive back then, would she have gone along with it or would she have been brave enough to resist? Would she have married someone who owned slaves?”
― Maisy Card, These Ghosts are Family

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