From Boston Globe/Horn Book Award-winning author Brandy Colbert comes
the story of four generations of a Hollywood family--an unforgettable
tale of ambition, fame, struggle, loss, and love in America.
The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.
Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the
decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated
actors of our time--and the matriarch of the most famous Black family in
Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has
always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes
everything.
Hollis Blackwood was never interested in fame. Still, she's surrounded
by it, whether at home with her family or at the prestigious Dupree
Academy among Los Angeles' elite. When private photos of Hollis are
leaked in the wake of Blossom's death, she is thrust into the spotlight
she's long avoided--and finds that trust may be a luxury even she can't
afford.
Ardith Blackwood has always lived in the public eye. A television star
since childhood, she was perhaps closer with Blossom than
anyone--especially after Ardith's mother died in a drug overdose. Ever
since, she has worked to be everything her family, her church, and the
public want her to be. But as a family secret comes to light and the
pressures from all sides begin to mount, she wonders what is left
beneath the face she shows the world.
Weaving together the narratives of Hollis, Ardith, and Blossom,
award-winning author Brandy Colbert tells an unforgettable story set in
an America where everything is personal, and nothing is private.
