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I'm excited. I hope the world enjoys getting to know the complicated Cooper family as much as they loved getting to know the Blacks.

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At their grandmother's request, estranged sisters are reunited at the site of their family's eight-seven-year-old restaurant, where they must face complicated truths about themselves and their family history.
Learn more at my website. There are sample chapters too. https://rhondamcknight.com/bitterands...

clean clean-and-wholesome historical-fiction ...more23 s theliterateleprechaun1,722 27

New-to-me author Rhonda McKnight examines the benefits of taking our eyes off ourselves and placing them on others. It’s not an easy thing to do as these women discover!

Mariah Clark is struggling to find a reason to live after her ten-year marriage ends in divorce and her husband steals their business. She can’t see a way to trust again after being manipulated and blindsided. She doesn’t think she has anyone she can turn to for help.

Sabrina Holland is struggling, too. She’s hanging onto a dream, but doesn’t see any way to make it come true. She’s survived the death of a loved one and is now simply existing from day to day, living out of a van. She doesn’t know if she can get out of her rut.

When their grandma Gail calls and asks them to come home, they think it’s to provide care for their sick grandfather. They get a surprise - their grandmother needs them to help save their 86-year-old family-run business. After reading through their great-great-grandmother’s letters, the sisters learn about Tabitha Cooper’s own struggles and realize that if she could overcome with so much against her, there’s hope for them with each other for support and guidance.

Rhonda McKnight’s novel reminds us of a simple truth: family is the heart of everything.

What you’ll get:
??Dual timeline; contemporary and 1920s Charleston, South Carolina
??Women in crisis: Two estranged sisters and their great-great-grandmother
??Feature on role of women, people of colour, society’s divisions, cultural clashing, Jim Crow Laws
??Examination of facing the truth and accepting it prior to moving on with life
??multi-generational family saga
??A reminder about bridging the gap and the power of forgiveness
??An education about Gullah Geeche; the legacy, culture, food and how it brings people together
??inspirational story about preserving heritage and relying on Faith

I guarantee (1) that Great Great Grandma Tabitha “Bitta” Cooper will serve up a heartbreaking yet inspiring story full of Southern comfort soul food and (2) that you’ll realize we’re all struggling and moving on is easier with a support system. Some things are worth the effort involved.

I was gifted this copy by Thomas Nelson and NetGalley and was under no obligation to provide a review.2024-reads netgalley22 s6 comments Wobilba661 93

This was indeed a bitter and sweet story. I loved how the author blended both the historic and contemporary aspect of the story together and how it flowed perfectly.

I loved the characters and how amazing they were. Mariah got on my nerves a couple of times but I did understand why she was the way she was and empathised with her. I'm glad she worked on herself to get better.

Tabitha, Sabrina and Mariah's trails and tribulations were gut wrenching to read about but it was what made their victories and joy so heartwarming

overall, I did enjoy the story, I just wished we had more of the Mariah and Dante romance.

Thanks to Thomas Nelson and Netgalley for the ARC! 4-stars black-love christian ...more20 s Korrie’s Korner1,230 13.5k

Rhonda has done it again!! She just has a way of reaching into those deep places of the heart and pricking it with truth. She has officially become an auto click author. She has a gift and I am always here for whatever she is penning. I love her dual time lines that goes back into the lives of a multi generational family. The Grandma’s in Rhonda’s stories always captured my heart completely. I wish I could have had that type of relationship with mine. This story is about healing and breaking those generational chains. It’s about forgiveness, not only to others but ourselves which at times tends to be the hardest to do. Guilt eats cancer and the quicker we can forgive and let grace cover the shame of it, the more whole our lives will become. So many lessons in this one. I love it so much.11 s WellReadAndRatchet38 9

Such a beautiful multigenerational family story! We start with Grandma calling sisters, Sabrina and Mariah, home under vague prentices. They know their grandpa is sick but she doesn't say much. Grandma has a few ulterior motives though and one is for her girls to save the family restaurant. Their stories are told through multiple POVs and dual timelines (which I loved as a historical fiction girly.) It's a story steeped in secrets, shame, and heartache but overcoming it all with love. There's elements of the family's Gullah culture and Christian faith as well. What I particularly loved was it wasn't one of those "let's pray about it" books, but they followed through with action (i.e. therapy.) I loved the main characters (and loved to hate Mariah) and their interactions with the supporting characters. We even get a glimpse of a few budding romances as well. Great- great Granny Tab was my favorite character. Her strength and determination drove her success no matter what obstacles she faced. I just wanted a tiny bit more of her and her restaurant's story. I loved that it worked out for everyone but it may have been a little too perfect for me. But in the end, we see Grandma indeed had the recipe for it all! You should definitely grab a copy to see how it all plays out.

Rating: 4.25/59 s Emaleigh Nichelle257 9

I’ll be back later after I collect my thoughts. This was so good.

Ok I’m back.

This story reads a movie. Dual time lines, past and present. What I enjoyed most was the nuances of the characters. There are a lot of people to keep up with in this family drama that spans generations but you get to know each one and how different they all are but have similar life experiences. Two sisters learn their family history and meet their great-grandmother through her letters that their own grandmother had been saving for them. Sometime you aren’t ready to learn a lesson or the timing of information will not be beneficial for you and their grandmother held on to those letters until they were needed.
This family had so many secrets. The past held dangerous but not surprising secrets. The present held secrets that were simply rooted in shame. This story is told so that you learn history of the family before you learn the families secrets. You see in both the past and present how and why those lies and webs began to unravel. This story is well written and the characters are people you know, some of your family, present and long lost. This is a story of family. A story of Gullah culture. A story of forgiveness. A story of love. I recommend this story if you love a family drama/saga or a multigenerational story.2024-favs8 s Tina Plintz87 3

This is my first book from Rhonda McKnight and definitely won’t be my last.
She captivated me right from the first chapter. I had such a hard time putting it down.
It’s a powerful story of family and the trials and tribulations that families endure.
A heartfelt story of how sometimes you need to talk and seek out help to get over the past to help you through.7 s1 comment Lit_Vibrations (Sammesha D.)235 20

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