a well-crafted and sharp story with compelling characters and a very accurate look at how race and class differences can play out. i really liked how it all wrapped up in the end - I really cared about what happened to emira after everything she went through, and I related to some of her anxieties and concerns. I cringed at alix and kelly's behaviors and saw some of how I've acted in them too - alix's self-centeredness reeeeally takes me back to dumb stuff I did in college. I'm usually more one for genre fiction, but I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked this!