A review by ngreader
Genesis Begins Again by Alicia D. Williams

4.0

MAN this book was hard to read. It's a gritty and realistic book about colorism and self-hatred and learning to undo the work that was put in you. It's also about verbally abusive parents who themselves have issues with substance abuse. It's about learning to make friends in middle school. It's about learning to love yourself.
It's definitely a hard upper middle school/teen students read. But MAN is it good. SO painful but SO good.
*contains one swear word that is called out as bad by the mother, alcoholism by father, bullying, slight self-harm by protagonist (trying to change skin color)*