Casey has already read The House of Eve by Sadeqa Johnson

so when @simonbooks sent us this copy I snatched it up! What a good book! I started it on an airplane and was finished by the time we landed, it’s that good!

All Ruby wants is to go to college to be an Optometrist so she can heal people. In the 1950’s it’s not so easy for a girl born into poverty. She’s doing everything she can to be the first in her family to go to college but young love threatens her path…

Eleanor is the first to go to college in her family. Her parents worked extremely hard to get her to the prestigious Howard University in Washington DC. She’s got a plan but when she meets a handsome medical student, her plans also slightly derail.

We get to follow along with both Ruby and Eleanor as they each navigate through the complexity that their lives have become. They don’t know each other but soon they will be connected in a way that neither one could have ever imagined.

Thank you so much @simonbooks for gifting us this copy! We both loved it so much!