Yaminah and her father have relocated to Brooklyn and she thought she left her old life and her extended family behind. All of her unresolved feelings come back when she gets a facebook message referencing her estranged mother and a family reunion. Yaminah reflects back on what happened before her parents’ divorce and faces her own complicated emotions about her mother. The story bounces between her past reflections and the present day as she is trying to deal. The story is told in a beautiful way both completing capturing this toughened teen’s perspective but also being poetic in the way it was written. This was a very quick read, but one that stayed with me long after the pages were completed. I would add there is a trigger warning for parental death as that was a punch I wasn’t expecting. The author did an excellent job telling a story that invoked such a variety of emotions from me.