This book is presented with an introduction by Tayari Jones, who explains her first interaction with the book and how she regrets never getting to meet the author. She also suggests the book might give off the impression as being connected in some way to The Bluest Eye, but that in her estimation it owes more to I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Thematically, all three books are similar, and are also similar to two of Tayari Jones’s novels: Silver Sparrow and The Untelling. […]