by Malla Nunn
First published 2022
Amandla knows her fifteenth birthday will bring trouble when her mother has another vision. This time her mother insists Amandla wear a makeshift bedsheet dress to bring back her father, a man who disappeared before Amandla was born. Her mother's fuzzy memories and their interracial appearance already draw stares in Sugar Town. When Amandla finds a mysterious address and large sum of cash in her mother's handbag, she decides to investigate her mother's past. The discovery will reshape her understanding of family completely. With her best friends supporting her, Amandla prepares to confront buried family secrets and whatever darkness awaits. These Sugar Town queens stand ready to fight for truth.
Genres: fiction, family-life, 21st-century, family-drama, african-american-historical-fiction
Vibes: atmospheric, emotional, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Sugar Town
Period: 21st-century
336 pages · Paperback · Penguin Young Readers Group