Mirror Girls
Books | Young Adult Fiction / Historical / United States / General
4.1
Kelly McWilliams
A thrilling gothic horror novel about biracial twin sisters separated at birth, perfect for fans of Lovecraft Country and The Vanishing Half As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors—the sign of a terrible curse. Meanwhile, in Harlem, Charlie's beloved grandmother falls ill. Her final wish is to be buried back home in Georgia—and, unbeknownst to Charlie, to see her long-lost granddaughter, Magnolia Heathwood, one last time. So Charlie travels into the Deep South, confronting the land of her worst nightmares—and Jim Crow segregation. The sisters reunite as teenagers in the deeply haunted town of Eureka, Georgia, where ghosts linger centuries after their time and dangers lurk behind every mirror. They couldn’t be more different, but they will need each other to put the hauntings of the past to rest, to break the mirrors’ deadly curse—and to discover the meaning of sisterhood in a racially divided land.
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Author
Kelly McWilliams
Pages
304
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published Date
2022-02-08
ISBN
0759553858 9780759553859
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"At the end of the day, I didn’t really care about this read. I guess it would be a good read for someone who doesn’t read a lot of horror."
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Zariah Grant
"Mirror Girls is an expertly woven tale. Multiracial twins, one born white and the other born black, are separated weeks after their births.
Seventeen years later, Charlie accompanies her dying Nana back to Eureka, Georgia. Raised in New York City, Charlie is no stranger to segregation. She is shocked to see how different life is for blacks south of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Magnolia is called to the bed of her dying grandmother. Here she learns that she has been living a lie. Her mother was a black maid working at the plantation house when she fell in love with the plantations heir. Magnolia now has a choice- continue pretending to be white or embrace her black heritage.
The twins' reunion is complicated by a curse, ghostly messages, and an upcoming protest.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who wants a glimpse life under Jim Crow. "
"I finished this book in two days! I loved it. The book was wonderfully written. The characters were very relatable. The historical events were a wonderful touch. "
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Cynthia