A review by sandsing7
For Black Girls Like Me by Mariama J. Lockington

2.0

The book description said that this book was going to focus on Keda as an African American girl adopted by a white family, and I was excited because there is such a need for that book in the tween book world! However, while it certainly touches on adoption and micro-aggressions and racism at the beginning, none of that is really resolved as her mother just pulls her out of school and it quickly becomes a book about her mother’s bipolar disorder. I just kept on thinking that, of course, the crazy white lady comes in and unexpectedly steals the whole focus of the book. This primary storyline is not even mentioned in the official book description! Ugh.

Also, one other random thought…I don’t get the Georgia Belles. A bit of random magical realism?? It didn’t work for me. Also also…her crush’s name is Huck? Really? Not sure if the author was going with a literary allusion/potential deep thought there but that certainly didn’t work for me either. (Suicide attempt)