Books by Candice Iloh

From Printz honoree and National Book Award Finalist Candice Iloh, a prose novel about a Yasminah Okar, a teenager reckoning with her family's secrets as she returns to the city where her mother recently died.Yasminah left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family with her father years ago. She's made a life for herself in Brooklyn. She thinks she's left her past-and more-behind. But when news reaches her via a cousin's Facebook that her estranged mother is dead and will be memorialized at a summer family reunion, the memories Yasminah has stubbornly shut out since she got to New York come roaring back. Her only choice is to return to Obsidian.