Super Short Summary

During the civil rights movement, nine-year-old Starla runs away from her strict grandmother in Mississippi to find her estranged mother in Nashville. Traveling with Eula, a Black woman, and a white baby, they face numerous challenges and grow through their encounters with racism, violence, and complex relationships, eventually learning the true nature of family and courage. This book includes racist language and violence, murder, child abuse, spousal abuse, animal abuse, sexual assault, and fatphobia.