Memphis, by Tara M. Stringfellow

This is another multi-generational family saga, this one set, as the title tips you off, in Memphis, with three generations of Black women. Their relationships, ambitions, goals, and setbacks are all set against the backdrop of systemic racism in the American South, a pervasive presence that touches ever aspect of their lives, even when all the want to do is live those lives. The writing is strong, the characters are believable, and the portrait not just of this family but of their specific place and the decades of time and events they live through, made for a book that was both enjoyable and troubling in equal parts.