After her father dies, almost-eleven-year-old Kenyatta Bernice (KB) is sent by their overwhelmed mother to live with their estranged grandfather. Over the course of a single, sweltering summer, KB attempts to get her bearings in a world that has turned upside down. Pinballing between resentment, abandonment, and loneliness, KB is forced to carve out a different identity for herself and find her own voice. As she examines the jagged pieces of her recently shattered world, she learns that while some truths cut deep, a new life - and a new KB - can be built from the shards.
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