![]() ![]() ![]() Pinballing between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, KB is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice. Over the course of a single, sweltering summer, KB attempts to get her bearings in a world that has turned upside down-a father who is labeled a fiend a mother whose smile no longer reaches her eyes a sister, once her best friend, who has crossed the threshold of adolescence and suddenly wants nothing to do with her a grandfather who is grumpy and silent the white kids across the street who are friendly, but only sometimes. A coming-of-age novel told from the perspective of eleven-year-old KB, as she and her sister try, over the course of a summer, to make sense of their new life with their estranged grandfather after the death of their father and disappearance of their motherĪfter almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice’s (KB) father dies of an overdose and the debts incurred from his addiction cause the loss of the family home in Detroit, she and her teenage sister, Nia, are sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather in Lansing. ![]()
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