Ms. Williams-Garcia's award winning novel provides her readers a wonderful view of a community at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the rise of the Black Panthers, and a young girl's search for her own identity as a young black girl during this turbulent time in our history. Beautifully written, this novel tells the story of the summer that Delphine and her two younger sisters are sent by their dad, against their grandmother's wishes, to spend time with the mother who left them years before. Prepared to hate her mother, Delphine learns about who her mother is as a person. Delphine learns that the answers are not black and white, that the obvious "truth" is sometimes deceptive, and that love is a complex and sometimes hard road. Delphine, like her poet-mother, Nzila, is a strong young woman who has a strong black voice.
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