The Perishing Women's Friendship Fiction that first surprising bite is

that first surprising bite is just the beginning

When she moved to Hollywood after graduating college with an engineering degree

the 1964 painting by Norman Rockwell of Ruby’s walk to school

and orbiting those stars

She was forced to close her businesses

The Perishing Women's Friendship Fiction that first surprising bite isA Black immortal in 1930s Los Angeles must recover the memory of her past in order to discover who she truly is in this extraordinarily affecting novel for readers of N. K. Jemisin and Octavia E. Butler. Lou, a young Black woman, wakes up in an alley in 1930s Los Angeles with no memory of how she got there or where shes from. Taken in by a caring foster family, Lou dedicates herself to her education while trying to put her mysterious origins behind