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Gr 3–7—A summer trip from New York to California offers three sisters profound, funny, and sometimes difficult lessons in the nature of family and the complexities of racial identity. In the late 1960s, Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern live with their father and their proper, strict grandma, but embark on a trip to visit their estranged mother on the opposite coast. On arrival, they find their mother distant and harsh—she doesn't cook, she doesn't hug, and she sends them off most days to the Black ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More