Tapestry by Beth Duke

Twenty-one-year-old Skye Willis lives in Eufaula, Alabama, a tourist mecca of stately homes and world-class bass fishing. Her childhood friends are either stuck at dead ends or have moved on to accomplish Big Things.

Skye’s grandmother, Verna, insists on being called “Sparrow” because she suspects her ancestors were Muscogee Creek. She dresses in faux deerskin and experiments with ancient Native American recipes, offering a myth or legend to anyone who will listen.

Skye has no idea what to do with her life. She’s smart as hell, but she has no faith or knowledge there’s something out there she was “born to do.” Nor does she know much of anything about her father, who died in Afghanistan when she was a toddler. He and his family are a mystery her mother won’t discuss.

But when Sparrow sets out to confirm her Creek ancestry through genetic testing, Skye joins in.
The results hit like a DNA bomb, launching them both on a path filled with surprises and life-changing events. Skye learns a harder truth than she ever expected.

Alternating chapters between Skye’s Alabama life and an intertwining tale of greed, deceit, and control in Texas, this story offers proof that all life is a woven tapestry of past, present, and future.

About the author

Beth Dial Duke is an Amazon #1 Best Selling author and the recipient of short story awards on two continents. She is eyeing the other five.

Beth lives in the mountains of her native Alabama with her husband, one real dog, and one ornamental dog. She loves reading, writing, and not arithmetic.
Baking is a hobby, with semi-pro cupcakes and amateur macarons a specialty. And puns--the worse, the better.

Travel is her other favorite thing, along with joining book groups for discussion. If a personal visit isn't possible, she is fluent in Zoom.

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Review

‘Tapestry’ is a fascinating book full of intertwined threads of history, a coming of age tale with a set of dynamic female family relationships. I love it when a book teaches you about things you didn't know a lot about and this does that in spades. I know the general history of Natives being forced off their land etc but nothing really apart from that and I really enjoyed learning about the Creek Indians and Sparrows cultural identity. But then you also learn about Black history in the area, especially that of the last slave ship and Afrikat. It shows how the American south is really a melting pot of races, cultures and identities and how we should let this teach us to not make the same mistakes in the future.

I particularly loved the characters of Sparrow and Skye and thought they were highly developed and had real authentic layers to their personalities. Now, I am an avid lurker and r/askreddit and one of the threads I am always fascinated with are to do with family secrets and so many of these now involve these DNA tests and how they are revealing and uncovering them! So for a story like this to be padded out and expand on a families story was like nirvana to me! I raced through it and found it to be thoroughly entertaining as well as heartwarming and with moments of great profoundness.

I have no hesitation in recommending this one!