**Unflinchingly irreverent, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartbreakingly
honest. --Elizabeth Acevedo, National Book Award winner and New York
Times bestselling author of The Poet X
**
In the vein of powerful reads like The Hate U Give and The Poet X,
comes poet Morgan Parker's pitch-perfect novel about a black teenage
girl searching for her identity when the world around her views her
depression as a lack of faith and blackness as something to be politely
ignored.
Trapped in sunny, stifling, small-town suburbia, seventeen-year-old
Morgan knows why she's in therapy. She can't count the number of times
she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for
her weird outfits, and been told she's not really black. Also, she's
spent most of her summer crying in bed. So there's that, too.
Lately, it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible
track on repeat--and it's telling them how to feel, who to vote for,
what to believe. Morgan wonders, when can she turn this song off and
begin living for herself?
Loosely based on her own teenage life and diaries, this incredible debut
by award-winning poet Morgan Parker will make readers stand up and cheer
for a girl brave enough to live life on her own terms--and for
themselves.
Morgan Parker put THIS song on--and I hope it never turns off. --Nic
Stone, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Martin and Odd One
Out****
"A triumphant first impression in the YA space." --Entertainment
Weekly
"An incredibly heartfelt, deep story about a girl's coming of age."
**--**Refinery29
