What You Owe Me — Bebe Moore Campbell

Sweeping across fifty years of family, friendship, betrayal, and reconciliation, What You Owe Me is Bebe Moore Campbell's most ambitious achievement in storytelling. When Hosanna Clark -- a hotel maid in post-World War II Los Angeles -- first meets her new coworker, Holocaust survivor Gilda Rosenstein, she is shocked to see a white woman in a situation so like her own. They quickly become friends, then business partners. But when their cosmetics company meets with unprecedented success, Gilda disappears with the profits -- and leaves behind an emotional debt that grows with time, in the hearts and souls of generations to come...