She might trust them-if they didn’t think something was wrong with Farrah, too. When her own family is unexpectedly confronted with foreclosure, the calculating Farrah is determined to reassert the control she’s convinced she’s always had over her life by staying with Cherish, the only person she loves-even when she hates her.Īs troubled Farrah manipulates her way further into the Whitman family, the longer she stays, the more her own parents suggest that something is wrong in the Whitman house. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can’t seem to afford-and it creates a dissonance in her best friend that Farrah can exploit. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a white, wealthy family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS-White Girl Spoiled. Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Morrow comes a new adult social horror novel in the vein of Get Out meets My Sister, the Serial Killer, about Farrah, a young, calculating Black girl who manipulates her way into the lives of her Black best friend’s white, wealthy, adoptive family but soon suspects she may not be the only one with ulterior motives. You never know who’s really in control.”- Los Angeles Timesįrom bestselling author Bethany C. “Morrow uses her heroine’s warped perspective to examine painful truths about race and class in America, but this isn’t a book intended to teach anyone a lesson, except maybe: Be careful. magazine, Medium, Book Riot, BookPage, CrimeReads, Tor Nightfire, Bookshop, Book Talk, BiblioLifestyle, and more! One of the most intriguing aspects of the novel is the slow burn of the story, leading readers into the thick of it before realizing how deep they've gotten, by which point it is too late to turn back, and they'll be on the edge of their seats right until the end.Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by PopSugar, Ms. In any other setting, this choice would have fallen, but in this psychological, social horror, it adds much more intrigue than any concretely "good" character could bring. Morrow has made the interesting decision to tell the story in Farrah's voice, even though she is a character whose behaviors often paint her in an unflattering light and can lead readers to potentially consider her an unreliable narrator. Morrow's storytelling paints a stark contrast between the picture-perfect exterior on which we see the benevolent white family who adopt a Black child, and what's really going on under the surface. The commentary on race and class in Cherish Farrah should not be missed.
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