Mazywood

S. A. Cosby's All the Sinners Bleed meets Percival Everett's Erasure in this literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1920s to the 1940s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother's cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage born in Old Hollywood.
Award-winning author Tananarive Due returns with the follow-up to the multi-award-winning The Reformatory in this generational novel of rage. With flashbacks to Johnny's grandmother--who brushed shoulders with giants like Lena Horne, Clark Gable, and Hattie McDaniel--this novel explores three generations, beginning with Mazelle Washington's life as a young actress. Fifty years after Mazelle's death, Johnny will discover the secret she kept and nurtured since she was a child, when she had a dark wish come true.
A monster lurks outside Mazywood, hidden for generations, and Johnny brought his family to its hunting grounds.