Grace is an amazing woman to behold and a true strength to get family. After learning of her husband's shocking secret (learned in the first chapter and can be a trigger for some but I feel to give it away would be a spoiler) she does what she must to keep going for her family. It's so heartbreaking.

She has to make many difficult decisions like giving her young children to others to raise while she works as a live-in maid.

She is not always seen and heard as a mixed race woman but the way she demands to be seen and heard is truly inspiring but also, just what a mother would do to protect her own.