My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist.

This is the story of a man's deception, a family's complicity, and the two teenage girls caught in the middle.

James Witherspoon has two families, one public, the other a closely guarded secret. 

Dana and Chaurisse are sisters who have never met. The only thing binding them together is the life-changing secret of their father's double life. Only one of them knows the truth about James and his hidden family.

When the girls do finally meet and become friends, the fragile promise that has kept his secrets safe for so long threatens to implode.

This soulful story of friendship and sisterhood paints an unforgettable picture of the messy knots that bind families together, a stunning novel from the critically acclaimed author of An American Marriage and winner of the 2019 Women's Prize for Fiction, one of the most important writers of her generation.