After 35 years of marriage, Mingus Browning's black father has left her Irish mother for a black woman, dividing the family in the process. With her own record of shaky relationships and her new love hiding secrets of his own, Mingus finds herself forced to choose between love, family, faith and the truth. From a prize-winning author. A candid, unsentimental exploration of interracial relationships' - USA Today 'A highly charged debut novel' - Essence magazine 'Passionately erotic...vivid and direct' - Booklist'