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It turns out that I am a sucker for books about biracial girls working out their identities. I absolutely loved this book and couldn't shut up about it back when I read it. I haven't touched it since because I don't want to remember it as being anything other than perfect. It's the story of a biracial family in 1970s Boston: black father, white mother, and two daughters, Cole and Birdie. The parents split and the father takes the dark-skinned daughter, Cole, and the mother takes the light-skinned daughter, Birdie. The story is mostly Birdie's, and it is from her perspective that the book examines the struggle of being true to the heritage handed down from each parent and yet being your own person. It was something that was on my mind a lot at the time, and it was exactly the right book for me then.