My Perfect Family Eating Disorders & Body Image while showing how African Americans

while showing how African Americans after slavery combatted it by articulating a vision of a “New Negro” to force the nation to recognize their humanity and unique contributions to America as it hurtled toward the modern age

is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community

historian Kellie Carter Jackson looks beyond this false choice

“A glittering debut

My Perfect Family Eating Disorders & Body Image while showing how African AmericansSixteen year old Leena has always wished for a big family but when she discovers she has a Muslim grandfather and aunt she never knew, she learns that family comes with tangled histories she may not be able to heal. Lonely Leena is close with her young single mother. Still, shes always secretly dreamed of more (and, when she was a kid, asked Santa for it). A huge family to cheer her on at graduation. A gaggle of smiling faces at the holidays. But one