When Delphine and her sisters visit their mother, they do not expect to end up participating in a Black Panther rally, but as they spend their days at the local community center, they learn to confront the racism that they have taken for granted all their lives. Ultimately, this is a moving and heartfelt story of a young girl and her changing relationships with her mother, her sisters, and her own Blackness.Publisher's description: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.