The thing I love the most about Break This House by Candice Iloh is the strong female characters and their ability to be REAL. Yaminah Okar lives with her father in Brooklyn. She grew up in Obsidian, but she and her father left that life behind when her mom and dad divorced. They have built a new life together and the life the fled in Obsidian is almost forgotten. But the Yaminah is invited to a family reunion on her mother side. A reunion to honor the death of her own mother. Why hadno one told her of her mothers death? And what an awful way to find out. Building up courage and bravery over her frustrations, Yaminah travels back to her grandmother‘s house to stay with family and attend the reunion. Along the way she will reconnect with her cousins, extended family and her own sister. Maybe she can even learn more about her mother, how she died and more importantly how she lived.