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From Boston Globe/Horn Book Awardwinning author Brandy Colbert comes the story of four generations of a Hollywood familyan unforgettable tale of ambition, fame, struggle, loss, and love in America.The Blackwoods. Everyone knows their name.Blossom Blackwood burst onto the silver screen in 1962, and in the decades that followed, she would become one of the most celebrated actors of our timeand the matriarch of the most famous Black family in Hollywood. To her great-granddaughters, Hollis and Ardith, she has always just been Bebe. And when she passes away, it changes everything.Hollis Blackwood was never interested in fame. Still, shes surrounded by it, whether at home with her family or at the prestigious Dupree Academy among Los Angeles elite. When private photos of Hollis are leaked in the wake of Blossoms death, she is thrust into the spotlight shes long avoidedand finds that trust may be a luxury even she cant afford.Ardith Blackwood has always lived in the public eye. A television star since childhood, she was perhaps closer with Blossom than anyoneespecially after Ardiths mother died in a drug overdose. Ever since, she has worked to be everything her family, her church, and the public want her to be. But as a family secret comes to light and the pressures from all sides begin to mount, she wonders what is left beneath the face she shows the world.Weaving together the narratives of Hollis, Ardith, and Blossom, award-winning author Brandy Colbert tells an unforgettable story set in an America where everything is personal, and nothing is private.