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A compelling love story—inspired by the author’s own family history—set in the segregated South during and after World War II, perfect for fans of Kristin Hannah’s The Women and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.
When three young Black men enlist in the US Army hoping to serve their country with honor, their lives are forever changed.
When Pearl Harbor is attacked in 1941, Cora’s brother, Benny, rushes to enlist against the wishes of Cora and their mother. Able to pass as white due to his pale skin and light eyes, Benny reports for duty only to realize he’s been mistakenly enlisted as a white man in a racially segregated military.
Lee has been friends with Benny ever since he was a troubled teenager, and he’s been sweet on Cora for nearly as long. When Lee enlists without telling Cora, she is heartbroken and feels betrayed by the man she expected to spend the rest of her life with.
Meanwhile, family friend Roscoe, encouraged by Benny, offers to marry Cora in order to ensure that she and her mother—who both remain home—will be provided for should Benny not make it back.
Benny does return, but his new white identity leaves him struggling to find his place in between, in a country that only sees race. As America promises postwar prosperity to white veterans through the GI Bill, Black soldiers are excluded.
While the war may be over, the fight has only just begun for Cora, Lee, Benny, and Roscoe.
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“Set in 1940s segregated Florida, Inharmonious is a tour de force—a heart-stopping story brimming with history, injustice, and love. Epic in scope, it transports the reader from the bombing of Pearl Harbor to the postwar challenges for Black veterans. I fell head over heels for Cora, Benny, and Lee—raging, crying, and cheering for them to the final pages. Astonishingly good—if you read one book in 2026, make it this one.”
— Heather Critchlow, author of The Tomorrow Project
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“Gripping, heart-wrenching, and so beautifully written. Inharmonious will stay with me for a long time.”
— Beth O’Leary, internationally bestselling author of The Switch -
“Compelling storytelling, engaging and at times challenging, but ultimately Inharmonious is a wonderful story of hope. I loved it.”
— Sally Page, bestselling author of The Keeper of Stories -
“Drawing on her own family’s history...Huf’s sympathetic, well-defined characters struggle with anger and frustration, desire and longing—and the betrayal of American democracy. An intimate look at the nation’s racist history.”
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“Tammye Huf’s searing post–World War II era novel is a fast-paced, heart-wrenching look at the tragic conundrum of racial identity in the United States, which defined the American experience of that time, and which continues to reverberate in the America of today. Inharmonious provides a mirror from which readers will not be able to turn away.”
— Charles B. Fancher, author of Red Clay -
“Huf delivers a powerful story…The heart of the novel lies in its depiction of inequality among WWII veterans and the danger in fighting it. This will move readers.”
— Publishers Weekly -
“Inspired by the author’s own family history, this compelling and layered narrative will appeal to book clubs, readers of WWII fiction, and Brit Bennett’s The Vanishing Half.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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About Tammye Huf
Tammye Huf grew up in California but has lived in the UK with her husband and three kids for the last twenty years. She loves nothing more than to immerse herself in new places and experiences, and she loves the way that books allow her to do that, traveling the globe or even back in time with the turn of a page. Since earning her BA from Wellesley College, she has been a teacher of various ages and abilities as well as a copywriter and a translator. Her short stories have been published in several literary magazines, and she was named the third-place winner of the London Magazine Short Story Prize in 2018. Her debut novel, A More Perfect Union, was published in the UK in October 2020 and in the USA in January 2022.
About the Narrators
William DeMerrit is a voice talent and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator.
Jaime Lincoln Smith is an audiobook narrator who has won AudioFile Earphones Awards as well as the prestigious Audie Award in 2022. An actor based in New York City, he has been featured on Broadway and Off-Broadway as well as on network television and in films. A first-generation Jamaican American, raised in Bloomfield, Connecticut, he is an actor, writer, producer, and educator.