"Personal essays exploring identity, family, and community through the prism of race and black culture. Confronts the medical profession's racial biases, shopping while black at Whole Foods, the legacy of Michael Jackson, raising black boys, haircuts that scare white people, racial profiling, and growing up in Southside Chicago"--

As fifteen-year-old Eli begins to feel that she's losing hold of everything, her pent-up anxiety and anger begin to unfurl, revealing a heartbreaking vulnerability beneath her tough exterior