My Friends

Pensacola, 1961. Annie has lived in the same colored girls' home since a woman found her on the sand as a newborn and carried her four miles. She has one good dress, and a friend named Jessica who has never once said her name to another white person.

When Jessica invites her to a graduation party out on Shell Island and promises it will be different this time, Annie goes — because being asked is the best thing there is, and she would rather be asked wrong than not be asked.

The four who put her over the side of a boat that night had already agreed she has no friends, no family, and nobody who will come looking. They are wrong about all three — and the ocean has been waiting eighteen years to hear what she found out about us.

199 pages · 5.5" x 8.5" · Also available as an instant e-book and a narrated audiobook.

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