Something Real

The author of the highly acclaimed Renee and Jay offers an emotionally compelling, provocative, and wickedly funny new novel that shows how love defies all expectations...and comes in all shapes, sizes, and colors of the rainbow

Big-boned and notoriously sassy, Ruth Borum is nonetheless the organist and a member in good standing of Antioch, Virginia's most prominent black church -- or she was until she dragged the popular Reverend Jonas Borum into an ugly divorce. Then, her life is thrown into even more of a tizzy when she falls head over heels in love...with a white man who has two kids. Ruth's friends are appalled, and Antioch, her spiritual home since birth, is ready to throw her out on her ear. Still, with the help of jump rope rhymes, a homeless man who hears God's voice in a mason jar, and two children who want a mama as much as she wants them, Ruth's determined to prove anything is possible. Even love between two people who couldn't be more mismatched.