The opening chapter offers so many depressing conflicts that it's hard to feel any good resolutions coming.
First, there's cancer,
then there's the never-ending racism of the south
(why didn't they move her mother up north years ago?),
the weird trashy lip piercing decision, and
the bossy, yet hopefully good-hearted, neighbor.
First, there's cancer,
then there's the never-ending racism of the south
(why didn't they move her mother up north years ago?),
the weird trashy lip piercing decision, and
the bossy, yet hopefully good-hearted, neighbor.