What a great story! My favorite line was "Up until then I'd thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan."

I love that Lily didn't see color, only people. I'm happy she found a safe place among the beekeeper sisters and that her father really didn't try to drag her back home with him. She certainly would have had a worse life if she was forced back with her father.