Kenya Curtis is a young girl living in Philly who feels different than her peers. Her dad is a philosopher and activist and her mom is a librarian (yeah for librarians!). She is being raised with some radical examples...she is a reader and a young member of "the days" an activist group led by her father who might not mind if the group got a little more aggressive. This book follows Kenya and her family through lots of change and strife. She is worried her parents may divorce but later learns they were never actually married. They do end up breaking up and she ends up in a private school with very few black kids. Where does it all lead her? What does she make of the world? Kenya is a great character and you get a glimpse of how she is thinking. I listened to the audio of this book and it was read but the incomparable Bhani Turpin...who I am beginning to think should record all audio books. Great book and a great audio production.
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