A teen returns home to face family secrets, her mother’s struggles with addiction and depression, and a changing hometown.
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A teen returns home to face family secrets, her mother’s struggles with addiction and depression, and a changing hometown.
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From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a teenager reckoning with her family’s—and her home town's—secrets. Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she’s moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah’s new bubble, m...
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Sexual content
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Violence & gore
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Profanity
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Substance use
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Mother’s addiction central; family addiction and poverty depicted
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Gentrification of hometown; Black family life and systemic themes
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Absent mother, family trauma, grief, and emotional neglect themes
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