![]() ![]() ![]() She has a drug problem and only parents her children in a most basic way. Their mother, Leonie, is in and out of their lives. JoJo is only thirteen years old but finds himself in that unique place between childhood and adulthood where he wants to be babied sometimes but also finds himself being the main parent character of his little sister Kayla. ![]() Several narrators contribute over the course of the novel but the main character throughout is JoJo. Also, poverty and the effects of poverty, racism, and dysfunctional families. Elements of the supernatural as well as realism can be found in this story. She is very descriptive in her writing, painting a picture with her words of the place the characters inhabit. As usual, Ward writes with a gritty eye that unflinching in its refusal to look away from the harder aspects in the lives of her characters. ![]()
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