Aquarian DawnWhile protesting the Vietnam war in America, Ada forges friendships with other nonconformist youth: free spirited Stacey, a boisterous hippie, and Sal, a philosophical wanderlust. Soon she seeks independence from her mother, love on her own terms, as well as sexual autonomy. College provides Ada with opportunities for academic success, personal experimentation, and full independence, as well as heartbreak. Despite loss and grief over a decade, Ada's

Raised by a single mother in an impoverished neighborhood in Los Angeles

Nina Simone

But after his scholarship is threatened

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson explores the unspoken hierarchies that divide us across lines of race and class

When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be his equal on the island

A vengeful creature wants blood as payment for a debt more than 300 years in the making--or it will swallow all of Winslow in darkness

a role model sister he rarely sees

But with time

Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma

and ourselves

Kane is Blaze's hitter

Yellowface grapples with questions of diversity