Clara Brodeur has spent her entire adult life pulling herself away from her mother, the renowned and controversial photographer Ruth Dunne, whose towering reputation rests on the nude portraits she took of Clara throughout her childhood.

At age eighteen, sick of her notoriety as 'the girl in the pictures', Clara fled New York City, settling and making her own family in small-town Maine. But years later, when Ruth reaches out from her deathbed, Clara suddenly finds herself drawn back to the past she thought she had escaped.

From the beloved author of Signal Fires and Family History, Black & White is a moving love letter to those familial bonds that both bruise and make you in equal measure.