Glow by Jessica Maria Tuccelli

When a rock crashes through Amelia J. McGee’s window, the fiery NAACP activist hurriedly sends her daughter, Ella, on the next bus home to Georgia. When Ella’s journey takes a dangerous turn, she’s cared for by the mysterious Willie Mae, a hoodoo practitioner and former slave. A magical tale of the inseparable bonds between mother and daughter, of spirits and ghosts that transcend time and of the unknowability of our origins.

Glow, Jessica Maria Tuccelli, $30.