Good People

For readers of Swift River and The Vanishing Half, a sharp, provocative debut novel about race, identity, ambition, and the dangerous stories we tell ourselves about who we are.

Abandoned in a high chair as a baby with a Black family who adopted and raised her, Jo Tope, a white woman, grows up convinced that she is destined for a different life—one defined by elite schools, prestigious institutions, and the promise of belonging among the white world she believes was meant to be hers.

Now a ...