Author Talk: Choosing Grace | Regina Jamison in conversation with Anne Shade

Sky Valentine is a young, African American woman who lives in Durham, North Carolina, and she is tired of being boxed in by small minds and southern expectations. To escape the restraints of her southern upbringing, Sky flees to Rhode Island to attend college. While attending Roger Williams University, she works not only on her degree, but she also works on shedding many of the things that peg her as a southerner.

At university, Sky rooms with sexy, vibrant Zenobia whom she ultimately falls head over heels in love with solidifying what she had felt in her heart all along--she loved women. But their affair is brief and interrupted by Zenobia's sudden departure from Roger Williams.

When college is completed, Sky returns home to her domineering mother--who has promised her hand in marriage to a rich and arrogant man--her loving but docile father, and to her big brother who is…