Mirror Girls by Kelly McWilliams

As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were secretly separated after the brutal lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now, at the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in rural Georgia. Magnolia knows nothing of her racial heritage, but secrets are hard to keep in a town haunted by the ghosts of its slave-holding past. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Racism
- Klu Klux Klan
- Hate crimes mentioned
- Child abuse
- Forced institutionalisation mentioned
- Starvation
- Police violence mentioned
- Lynching, off-page
- Mass drowning mentioned
- Animal sacrifice (snake)
