An engross­ing, detailed fam­i­ly dra­ma with an affect­ing emo­tion­al cen­ter—Kirkus Reviews 

Some fam­i­lies leave you mon­ey. Oth­ers leave you scars. Based on a true sto­ry, Paper Ros­es is a sweep­ing, emo­tion­al­ly res­o­nant nov­el from the sis­ter of Tracii Show Hut­sona, The New York Times-fea­tured ser­i­al con artist, about fam­i­ly secrets, inher­it­ed trau­ma, and the long shad­ow of betray­al. When Abi­gail Jones learns of her sis­ter Nikki’s third arrest, she’s pulled into a spi­ral of ques­tions: Was it fate, fam­i­ly, or some­thing deep­er? As Abi­gail begins to piece togeth­er the past, she uncov­ers a trail of silence and sur­vival that stretch­es across con­ti­nents and gen­er­a­tions. From a 1940s Jew­ish Moroc­can house­hold where a maid bears wit­ness to the ori­gins of a gen­er­a­tional wound, to the sun-washed sub­urbs of 1970s Cal­i­for­nia, and final­ly to 2023. Paper Ros­es fol­lows Abigail’s search for answers, her con­fronta­tion with the sis­ter she thought she knew, and her reck­on­ing with a lega­cy that’s impos­si­ble to escape.