Junie: A GMA Book Club Pick
A Novel
Erin Crosby Eckstine
- **GOOD
- MORNING
- AMERICA
- BOOK
- CLUB
- PICK
- •
- A
- young
- girl
- must
- face
- a
- life-altering
- decision
- after
- awakening
- her
- sister’s
- ghost,
- navigating
- truths
- about
- love,
- friendship,
- and
- power
- as
- the
- Civil
- War
- looms.“An
- enrapturing
- tale
- of
- survival
- .
- .
- .
- Eckstine
- has
- poured
- a
- ton
- of
- heart
- into
- her
- characters.”—The
- Atlanta
- Journal-Constitution“The
- richly
- textured
- prose
- quickly
- pulled
- me
- into
- [Junie’s]
- treacherous
- yet
- magical
- world.”—Charmaine
- Wilkerson,
- New
- York
- Times
- bestselling
- author
- of
- Black
- Cake**Sixteen
- years
- old
- and
- enslaved
- since
- she
- was
- born,
- Junie
- has
- spent
- her
- life
- on
- Bellereine
- Plantation
- in
- Alabama,
- cooking
- and
- cleaning
- alongside
- her
- family,
- and
- tending
- to
- the
- white
- master’s
- daughter,
- Violet.
- Her
- daydreams
- are
- filled
- with
- poetry
- and
- faraway
- worlds,
- while
- she
- spends
- her
- nights
- secretly
- roaming
- through
- the
- forest,
- consumed
- with
- grief
- over
- the
- sudden
- death
- of
- her
- older
- sister,
- Minnie.When
- wealthy
- guests
- arrive
- from
- New
- Orleans,
- hinting
- at
- marriage
- for
- Violet
- and
- upending
- Junie’s
- life,
- she
- commits
- a
- desperate
- act—one
- that
- rouses
- Minnie’s
- spirit
- from
- the
- grave,
- tethered
- to
- this
- world
- unless
- Junie
- can
- free
- her.
- She
- enlists
- the
- aid
- of
- Caleb,
- the
- guests’
- coachman,
- and
- their
- friendship
- soon
- becomes
- something
- more.
- Yet
- as
- long-held
- truths
- begin
- to
- crumble,
- she
- realizes
- Bellereine
- is
- harboring
- dark
- and
- horrifying
- secrets
- that
- can
- no
- longer
- be
- ignored.With
- time
- ticking
- down,
- Junie
- begins
- to
- push
- against
- the
- harsh
- current
- that
- has
- controlled
- her
- entire
- life.
- As
- she
- grapples
- with
- an
- increasingly
- unfamiliar
- world
- in
- which
- she
- has
- little
- control,
- she
- is
- forced
- to
- ask
- herself:
- When
- we
- choose
- love
- and
- liberation,
- what
- must
- we
- leave behind?
