Socialite Edith Bolling has been in no hurry to find a new husband since she was widowed, preferring to fill her days with good friends and travel. Dorothy endeavors to break the cycle of pain and abandonment, to finally find peace for her daughter, and gain the love that has long been waiting, knowing she may pay the ultimate price. A stranger who’s loved her through all of her genetic memories. A stranger is searching for her in each time period. Through an experimental treatment designed to mitigate inherited trauma, Dorothy intimately connects with past generations of women in her family: Faye Moy, a nurse in China serving with the Flying Tigers Zoe Moy, a student in England at a famous school with no rules Lai King Moy, a girl quarantined in San Francisco during a plague epidemic Greta Moy, a tech executive with a unique dating app and Afong Moy, the first Chinese woman to set foot in America.Īs painful recollections affect her present life, Dorothy discovers that trauma isn’t the only thing she’s inherited. Fearing that her child is predestined to endure the same debilitating depression that has marked her own life, Dorothy seeks radical help. But when her five-year-old daughter exhibits similar behavior and begins remembering things from the lives of their ancestors, Dorothy believes the past has truly come to haunt her. Because history repeats what we don’t remember.ĭorothy Moy breaks her own heart for a living.Īs Washington’s former poet laureate, that’s how she describes channeling her dissociative episodes and mental health struggles into her art. But there are people and stories that refuse to be forgotten. Civil Townsend is ready to retire, to find her peace, and to leave the past behind. Until one day she arrives at their door to learn the unthinkable has happened, and nothing will ever be the same for any of them.ĭecades later, with her daughter grown and a long career in her wake, Dr. As Civil grapples with her role, she takes India, Erica, and their family into her heart. Neither of the Williams sisters has even kissed a boy, but they are poor and Black, and for those handling the family’s welfare benefits, that’s reason enough to have the girls on birth control. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she hopes to help women shape their destinies, to make their own choices for their lives and bodies.īut when her first week on the job takes her along a dusty country road to a worn-down one-room cabin, Civil is shocked to learn that her new patients, Erica and India, are children - just eleven and thirteen years old. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African American community.
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