โ Scribed by Iloh, Candice
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"Candice Iloh's beautifully crafted narrative about family, belonging, sexuality, and telling our deepest truths in order to be whole is at once immensely readable and ultimately healing."?Jacqueline Woodson, New York Times Bestselling Author of Brown Girl Dreaming "An essential?and emotionally gripping and masterfully written and compulsively readable?addition to the coming-of-age canon."?Nic Stone, New York Times Bestselling Author of Dear Martin "This is a story about the sometimes toxic and heavy expectations set onthe backs of first-generation children, the pressures woven into the familydynamic, culturally and socially. About childhood secrets with sharp teeth. And ultimately, about a liberation that taunts every young person." ?Jason Reynolds, New York Times Bestselling Author of Long Way Down Candice Iloh weaves the key moments of Ada's young life?her mother's descent into addiction, her father's attempts to create a home for his American daughter more like the one he knew in Nigeria, her first year at a historically black college?into a luminous and inspiring verse novel.
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