Roberta Forest doesn’t see the world in black and white. She is a feisty, teenage girl conflicted about being young, smart, Black, and Catholic. As she begins to question her faith, she focuses on poetry, an upcoming essay contest, and reads The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which leads to an explosive realization about the adults in her life that she looks up to. This coming-of-age novel is all about self-discovery and questioning the things that make us who we are and where we come from.
