The first person novel tells the story of Jade, an ambitious African American high school student.

Jade, who is also the book's narrator, is a sixteen-year-old African American student attending a mostly white private school in Portland, Oregon on a scholarship.

Heeding her mother's advice, Jade works to take advantage of every opportunity presented to her.

Hoping to be afforded the opportunity to study abroad so she can utilize her fluent Spanish Skills, Jade is instead offered the chance to be paired with a mentor in the Women to Women program by her school's guidance counselor.

It was named to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's 2018 Best Books of the Year List with an "Outstanding Merit" distinction and won the Committee's Josette Frank Award for fiction.