LaToya Williams lives in Montgomery, Alabama, and attends a mostly white high school. It seems as if her only friend is her older brother, Alex. Toya doesn’t know where she fits in, but after a run-in with another student, she wonders if life would be different if she were … different. And then a higher power answers her prayer: to be “anything but black.”
Toya is suddenly white, blond, and popular. Now what?
Randi Pink’s audacious fiction debut dares to explore a subject that will spark conversations about race, class, and gender.
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“Pink illustrates how kids of all races bully one another to establish a pecking order but also shows that the characters are free to find their own identities. The author does not shy away from rape culture…[but] balances the more serious moments of her novel with the antics of Toya and Alex’s parents, who just cannot seem to get along, and the occasional appearance of a personable Jesus who reminds Toya of a ‘cool English teacher.’”
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Children’s Literature