I was looking forward to this as I really liked Renee Watson's Piecing Me Together, but I was disappointed by the way the storytelling was overtaken by polemics. Now, I 100% agree with everything the characters were saying in their polemics, but just hearing characters politically analyze every interaction around them doesn't make for great narrative. It was hard to have much emotional investment in what happened with the characters when literally every conversation turns into a political soapbox.