I really enjoyed this book. Set in the 1960s, Delphine and her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern, embark on a journey from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to visit their birthmother, Cecile. When the children were very small,Cecile left the children to live with their father and his mother. To put it lightly, Cecile was not happy about their visit and found them to be more in the way of her Black Panther gatherings than anything. Little by little, the girls chip away at the wall their mother has built up around her heart. It may sound silly, but the thing that came to my mind was the movie "Forrest Gump" and Forrest's dealings with the Black Panthers that Jenny befriended during her hippy days. Because this movie was the only source of background knowledge for me, this book taught me alot about life for a young African American girl during this time period. It was very eye-opening!
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