The inaugural novel in the Well-Read Black Girl Books series, The Catch
is a darkly whimsical tale of women daring to live and create with
impunity.
Twin sisters Clara and Dempsey have always struggled to relate, their
familial bond severed after their mother vanished into the Thames. As
infants they were adopted into different families, Clara sent to live
with a successful, upper-class couple, and Dempsey with a sullen,
unaffectionate city councilor. In adulthood, they are content to be all
but estranged, until Clara sees a woman who looks exactly like their
mother on the streets of London. The catch: this version of Serene,
aged not a day, has enjoyed a childless life―the very life, it seems,
she might have had if the girls had never been born.
As with most things, Clara and Dempsey cannot see eye to eye on the
confounding appearance of this woman. Clara, a celebrity author with a
penchant for excessive drinking and one-night stands, is all too
willing to welcome the confident and temperamental Serene into her
home. But cloistered Dempsey, who makes a modest living doing menial
data entry work from the confines of her apartment, is dubious of the
whole situation, believing this all to be the insidious ruse of a con
woman. Clashing over this stranger who burrows deeper and deeper into
their lives, the sisters hurtle toward an altercation that threatens
their very existence, forcing them to finally confront their
pasts―together.
In her riveting first foray into fiction, Yrsa Daley-Ward conjures a
kaleidoscopic multiverse of daughterhood and mother-want, exploring the
sacrifices that women must make for self-actualization. The result is a
marvel of a debut novel that boldly asks, “How can it ever, ever be a
crime to choose yourself?”
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