127 pages
English language
Published March 22, 2004 by Thorndike Press.
As the daughter of biracial parents, fourteen-year-old Staggerlee already feels like an outsider in her largely African-American community, and a summer with her cousin Trout during which both girls question their sexuality, allows Stagerlee to think about the type of person she can become.
This felt oddly...unfinished. I loved the characters and Woodson's writing style and the subject matter, but I was unsatisfied by the end. It just didn't seem to go anywhere. It was odd.
