Far From the Tree

Name: Far From the Tree
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Virginia DeBerry
ISBN: 9781543611380

Author: Virginia DeBerry, Donna Grant

Narrator: Fran L. Washington

Unabridged: 13 hr 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 05/16/2017

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina. Their mother, Della, would rather they forget about going there and dredging up the past. Neither of them suspect that their trip to Prosper will uncover decades-old secrets, family betrayals, and tangled relationships - or that it will make these two strangers realize that they are, and always will be, sisters.

About Virginia DeBerry

Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant met while working as models. Virginia went on to become editor in chief for Maxima, a fashion and lifestyle magazine for plus-size women, and Donna was the magazine’s managing editor. They moved on together to become novelists. Virginia lives in New Jersey. Donna and her husband live in Brooklyn.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Efundunke on July 29, 2011

Great read! I really enjoyed how effortlessly the language flowed from prose to poetry. Makes me with my mom were still alive. I was barely coming into my adult years when she passed from cancer. There are so many questions I would have asked her and frequently wondered if I would have if she were s......more

Goodreads review by Devin on February 12, 2024

I forced myself to pick this book up as part of my job for a book club. The first 100ish pages are nothing but exposition and character development and moved at a painfully slow, snail pace with seemingly no direction. About 150ish pages in there is FINALLY some intrigue with the whole forbidden fami......more

Goodreads review by Lorrea - WhatChaReadin'? on February 19, 2015

I thoroughly enjoy the way, Virginia DeBerry and Donna Grant capture the true essence of African American female relationships in their books. Far from the Tree was no exception. Ronnie and Celeste are sisters that have never really gotten along. Odella, their mother is also not the easiest to get a......more

Goodreads review by Caleb on February 21, 2023

A tour-de-force read about a mother and her two daughters that belongs in the cannon of commonly taught books across the country. Far From The Tree achieves what so many modern novels miss: compelling storytelling with brisk dialogue, humor and characters you care about. The book devotes substantial......more

Goodreads review by ajournalforbooks on March 26, 2025

Sometimes it’s not enough to just lock away the past, but to make amends with it, make amends with yourself and let go in a way that heals. That was the story for Della, Celeste and Ronnie, a mother and her two daughters who for years have struggled to be honest, open and loving. But after their fathe......more