Delphine, Vonetta and Fern are three sisters who are shipped off to Oakland, CA for the summer to visit there mother. who had abandoned them several years before. There mother Cecile wants nothing to do with her daughters and is not motherly towards them at all, she's more concerned about her writing for the Black Panthers. The three sisters learn to cope with their situation by sticking together. Set in 1968, right after Martin Luther King was assasinated and the Black Panthers were gaining a following this piece of historical fiction was extremely well written. You genuinely loath the mother at times and love the girls strong voices. Plus, the ending was a nice touch. I will be recommending this to my students and history teachers.
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