As a biracial girlie, I loved this!!!! I love the focus on the multicultural/multiracial experience, and that the backgrounds of each character were all so different from each other, the stories were tonally also different: aka some focused on romance, some on family, some on internal growth, etc. We had recent immigrants & long-time Americans, different religions, some were queer, some were white-passing & some weren’t, etc. 

As always with an anthology, a few didn’t land for me but that’s ok! The majority absolutely did. The 2-3 middle grade stories did throw me off tho, I didn’t expect them since I thought this was YA. The first two stories almost put me off from finishing bc they were both so classically…..like moralistic/optimisitc? Like I didn’t want to read an anthology where the moral of every story was “we’re all diverse, we can learn from each other, let’s all accept each other, and that’s great!!!” which were the vibes of the first two. But the premise of the anthology was promising enough that I kept going and I’m glad I did!