She remembers being an 8 year old girl moving with her father and younger brother to Brooklyn from Tennessee after the death of her mother.

August shares friendships with three other Brooklynites, Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi, as they walk through the neighborhoods and dream optimistically of the future, and revealing what it held in store for them.

"[9] NBC News wrote that it "weaves together themes of death, friendship, Black migrations, the sense of displacement that usually follows, and family.

"[11] Kaitlyn Greenidge for The Boston Globe wrote that the book was "a love letter to loss, girlhood and home.

[12] The Los Angeles Times said that the book "joins the tradition of studying female friendships and the families we create when our own isn’t enough, like that of Toni Morrison’s 'Sula,' Tayari Jones’ 'Silver Sparrow' and 'Zami: A New Spelling of My Name' by Audre Lorde.