{"id":62432,"date":"2022-02-09T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=62432"},"modified":"2022-02-09T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T02:58:09","slug":"mirror-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=62432","title":{"rendered":"Mirror Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mirror Girls<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Little, Brown Young Readers<\/a>
\n2022-02-08
\n304 pages
\nHardcover ISBN-13: 9780759553859
\neBook ISBN-13: 9780759553859
\nAudiobook ISBN-13: 9781549165962<\/p>\n

Kelly McWilliams<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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A thrilling gothic horror<\/a> novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country<\/em><\/a> and The Vanishing Half<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching<\/a> of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem<\/a>, while white-passing<\/a> Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors\u2014the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie\u2019s beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia\u2014and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South<\/a>, confronting the land of her worst nightmares\u2014and Jim Crow<\/a> segregation.<\/p>\n

The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn\u2019t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors\u2019 deadly curse\u2014and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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