MemphisIn the summer of 1995, ten year old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's

love between generations rules

and magical beings of all kinds are the norm

As an expert in relationship-evasion and the host of the popular student radio show Brown Sugar

Malcolm X - once called the most dangerous man in America - challenged the world to listen and learn the truth as he experienced it

Instead of a land of beauty and wonder

As he gets older

In the first graphic novel for young readers to focus on police brutality and the Black Lives Matter movement

In this groundbreaking book

and families

girls who rock naturals

which is an unexpected bonus

compassionate and wise