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Book SynopsisUnflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly honest. —Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X
In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X, comes poet Morgan Parker''s pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely ignored.Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old Morgan knows why she''s in therapy. She can''t count the number of times she''s been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her weird outfits, and been told she''s not really black. Also, she''s spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there''s that, too.
Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat--and it''s tell
