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A modern classic-bold, intimate, and unapologetically honest.
In REACHING BACK, award-winning author Nea Anna Simone introduces readers to Mignon Samuels and begins a powerful multigenerational saga that explores identity, inheritance, and the enduring strength of Black womanhood. This first novel in the Mignon Samuels Trilogy lays the emotional and narrative foundation for a story that unfolds across three books, tracing legacy, reckoning, and transformation.
When Mignon Samuels discovers an aging leather-bound journal, she is drawn into the hidden lives of four generations of women who came before her-from her great-grandmother's resilience to her mother's unspoken sacrifices. As the journal reveals long-buried truths, Mignon begins to see how patterns of silence, survival, and compromise have shaped her own life.
At the same time, Mignon is confronting the unraveling of her marriage and the collapse of the life she believed she was meant to live. Pulled between who she has been and who she is becoming, she must face difficult truths about love, loyalty, and self-belonging. What begins as discovery becomes a reckoning-one that forces Mignon to question inherited expectations and consider the cost of breaking generational cycles.
REACHING BACK is a fast-paced, emotionally rich novel about memory, identity, and the power of truth. Nea Anna Simone's prose is lyrical, raw, and deeply human, setting the stage for Mignon's continued journey in Reborn (Book Two) and The Substance of Things (Book Three).
Ideal for readers of Terry McMillan, J. California Cooper, and Tayari Jones, REACHING BACK asks an enduring question: how much of the past do we carry-and what does it take to choose ourselves?
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Nea Anna Simone is an author whose work explores the intersection of history, identity, spirituality, and generational legacy. Writing across historical and contemporary settings, she is known for crafting emotionally layered narratives that examine how the past shapes the present, particularly through the lived experiences of women.Her debut novel, Reaching Back, the first book in the Mignon Samuels Trilogy, introduces readers to a multi-generational family saga rooted in resilience, survival, and transformation. Through richly drawn characters and interwoven timelines, Simone addresses themes of race, trauma, colorism, faith, and womanhood, illuminating the enduring bonds between mothers and daughters across centuries.Simone's storytelling is deeply informed by an interest in ancestral memory and spiritual inheritance. Her work often centers on characters navigating pivotal moments of reckoning-where personal liberation requires confronting inherited silence and reclaiming voice. By blending historical fiction with contemporary drama, she creates narratives that are both intimate in scope and expansive in vision.In addition to her work as a novelist, Simone brings a multidisciplinary perspective to her writing, drawing from lived experience, cultural history, and a commitment to authenticity. Her prose balances lyricism with emotional honesty, offering readers stories that are reflective, challenging, and ultimately restorative.Nea Anna Simone writes with the belief that storytelling is both a personal and collective act-one that preserves memory, honors legacy, and opens pathways toward healing. Her work continues to resonate with readers drawn to literary fiction that engages history while speaking directly to the complexities of modern life.
