What a boring book with an unsatisfactory ending. There were some passages with lovely writing, but overall, I found this incredibly dull. The audiobook is not pleasant to listen to.

CW:Poverty, Parental abandonment, alcoholism, domestic violence, slavery mention, child abuse/neglect, racial slurs, murder, segregation, food insecurity, selective mutism, description of injury, self-harm, menstruation, teen sex scenes, abandonment, sexual trauma/ assault, mental illness, ptsd, parental death, leukemia mention, generational trauma, trail