Bid Whist at Midnight

The book opens at the home of Sardis, who invites Grace and Dorcus over at midnight for a card game of bid whist. The women had bonded in college over schoolwork, boyfriends, and card games but haven't interacted for nearly 20 years. As they play, they take turns revisiting the dark spaces of their pasts, as well as a dreaded event involving their friend Taletha. The women's painful life decisions, traumas, and losses unfold through a series of flashbacks, and readers also learn how the tra...