Roberta Frost, a bright but rebellious Black Philadelphia thirteen-year-old, copes with life’s difficulties and her parent’s struggling marriage through her poetry, writing, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Set during the height of the Watergate scandal, Roberta spirals into doubt about her religion and the adults in her life after a nun at her school makes a racist remark. When disappointment with her ineligibility in her school’s essay contest puts Roberta into an enraged confrontation with her mother, familial truths are revealed.
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