Bacchanal by Veronica G Henry (2021) 47North

I love finding new authors who write so fluidly that I can get lost in the reading.  Bacchanal is set in the Depression, a unique black carnival populated by performers with real talents, and some with burdens that they cannot help or shake.  But we learn that even when our family connections seem to be too hard to bear, they can also give us strength we did not know we could wield.