THE HATWEARER'S LESSON by Yolanda Joe gifts us with a heartwarming and high-spirited novel about the lessons life teaches us, the rich histories families share-whether they wear hats or don't-and the memories we carry with us all our lives..

Terri Mills is an ambitious Chicago lawyer, a rising star on a fast track, recently engaged to an equally ambitious young lawyer, Derek Houser. Together they make an enviable pair at the political dinners and charity galas attended by Chicago's young black elite. But Terri's Grandma Ollie, who raised her granddaughter after her daughter died in childbirth, is unable to record the engagement in her Bible--a bad sign. Grandma Ollie's sudden illness sends Terri home to Collingswood, Arkansas, while she's in the midst of romantic and career turmoil--she's discovered that her fiance has been unfaithful, and she's in the throes of a make-or-break lawsuit. Granddaughter and grandmother share a gift of vision, although Terri's talent is not as well developed. Distracted by Grandma Ollie's dramatic past and Derek's long-distance contrition, Terri doesn't realize that local rodeo superstar Lynnwood Conway has fallen in love with her. The unassuming ease with which Lynnwood woos Terri forces her to reconsider what and who truly makes her happy. This is a spirited fairy tale for young black professional women with an ending as predictable, and as satisfying, as one would expect.

Yolanda Joe is the bestselling author of bestselling novels, Falling Leaves of Ivy, He Say, She Say, Bebe's By Golly Wow, and This Just In. She has also launched a mystery series under the pen name of Ardella Garland. Her mystery novels are Details at Ten and Hit Time.

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