by Candice Iloh
First published 2022
Yaminah Okar built a new life in Brooklyn with her father. She left Obsidian behind years ago, along with her fractured family and painful memories. She convinced herself she had moved forward to something better. Then a Facebook message about her estranged mother shatters her carefully constructed distance. The message forces Yaminah back into memories she tried to bury. Everything that led to her parents' divorce floods back. The collapse of her family intertwines with the decay of Obsidian itself. Yaminah can no longer avoid the truth about her mother or the place that shaped her. She must confront what really happened in the city she tried so hard to forget. The reckoning will demand everything from her.
Genres: fiction, american-fiction, african-american, contemporary, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: estranged-family, reckoning
Setting: Brooklyn, Obsidian
Period: present-day
224 pages · Hardcover · Penguin Teen