CAROLINA
RED
The Love Story of
Estella and Mookie
Ray Shell
A Novel by Ray Shell
A Southern love story the world was never going to make easy.
Estella and Mookie are young, in love, and standing in the middle of race, religion, family secrets and a town that remembers everything.
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Carolina Red: The Love Story of Estella and Mookie
by Ray Shell
A fierce, sweeping novel — a story of love, bloodlines, grief, racism, faith, memory and the brutal pull of home.
At its heart are Estella and Mookie: two young lovers trying to choose each other in a world determined to divide them.
Around them, generations of secrets are beginning to crack open.
Peggy is dying. Lois is coming home from London. Lana is falling apart. Pam is holding more truth than she can bear.
And the past is not finished with any of them.
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Readers are calling it:
Rated 4.8 out of 5 on Amazon · 15 global ratings
Utterly captivating and inventive
A wonderful read
A thought-provoking journey through time
Beautiful story
Could not put it down
What it's about
This is not a neat little romance.
This is love in the middle of family damage.
Love in the shadow of history.
Love in a town where race, religion, shame and survival sit at the same table.
It moves between London and North Carolina, between the living and the remembered.
Between the people who left and the people who stayed.
The past is not finished with any of them.
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About Ray Shell
Ray Shell is an actor, writer, performer and novelist whose work moves between page, stage and screen.
His storytelling is bold, rhythmic, character-driven and emotionally charged — with an ear for dialogue and a gift for building worlds full of tension, humour, pain and humanity.
Carolina Red is the kind of novel that stays in the body long after the last page.
Step inside the world of Carolina Red.
If you love novels that pull you into a family, shake the secrets loose, and leave you thinking about the characters long after the final page — Carolina Red belongs on your Kindle.
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