Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781524740955.
From the founding member of We Need Diverse Books comes a powerful novel about identity, betrayal, and the meaning of family.
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Number of Pages: 374
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Annika Barranti Klein @noirbettie
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Nov 19, 2021
Set in the late 1800s, this is a charming YA novel about Jo Kuan, lady’s maid by day and “Dear Sweetie” by night. She writes an advice column for the gentile ladies of Atlanta, doing her best to help fix society’s ills. When she pushes back on race and gender roles, angry readers try to find out who Miss Sweetie is. Then Jo receives an anonymous letter that could lead to the identity of her birth parents, and she has a lot of decisions to make.