It may take you a minute to get into What Looks Like Crazy, but stick with it. Ava is returning to her home town to spend the summer with her widowed sister Joyce after Ava's HIV+ status getting leaked ruins her haircutting business in Atlanta. Joyce is a tender heart, who takes care of the young women in the town. She's busy helping a young mom deliver a baby and sends Eddie to the airport to pick up Ava in her stead. Formerly Wild Eddie, just Eddie has long dreads. He is a tai-chi practicing vegetarian, but he's not the typical perfect love interest. Eddie has his shit together after serving in Vietnam and doing some bad things at war and after, but he's not unscathed.

Published by Avon, WLLC may be classed as a romance, but like many romances it has serious depth. In this case, clergy, social work regulations, and racial injustice are called out. 

I don't want to quote some of the trenchant passages about how systemic oppression as impacted Black people out of context, but trust that the September chapter makes its point.