Black Cashmere: A Novel

There is a dead man on Imani's cutting table. He is not the reason this family is about to pay.In 1968 a white woman on Vallejo Street paid Loretta Landry four hundred dollars for a dress, filed the stitch under her own name, and built sixty years of money on it. Loretta took the four hundred dollars. In fifty years she never decided whether that made her smart or a coward.Her granddaughter Imani Washington has spent twelve years building a cashmere house big enough to say so out loud. Then comes a morning nobody in that family will ever tell the same way twice. Marie, Angel and Ebony come the way they always come: fast, and certain, and before the police.What none of the four of them understands yet is that the thing that gets you is almost never the thing you did on purpose. Before the year is out, every woman in that house will have done something she cannot take back.Book Two of the Glow Girls.