Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview:#1 I was twelve years old, and three years younger than Layla, when I was assigned to steal the ID card of a fifteen-year-old black girl named Layla Weathersby. I was supposed to write a report about two politicians named Benjamin Franklin Wade and Thaddeus Stevens, and then imitate Faulkner's style when writing a short story about Jackson. #2 One week, the three of us...

"An incisive and vulnerable yet powerful and provocative collection of essays, Savala offers poignant reflections on living between society's most charged, politicized, and intractably polar spaces: between black and white, between rich and poor, betweenthin and fat - as a woman. The daughter of an Afro-Latinx father and a white mother, Savala's light complexion has always contrast her kinky hair and broad nose to embody what old folks used to call...