Whether it’s because of his own self-hatred, his religious faith as a Jehovah’s Witness, or a combination of this with his own upbringing, Anthony Stone is a toxic and abusive parent for almost the entire book. Marcus gives Tiffany the space to question how she feels about spiritual faith and death.īy contrast, Tiffany’s biological family is mostly awful, especially her father, Anthony Stone. Jo Walton becomes a surrogate mother to Tiffany, allowing her to maintain her pride as a dark-skinned Black young woman and giving her a safe space to be herself. Tiffany Sly gains a found family through her neighbors, a Black lesbian beautician named Jo Walton and her eccentric yet wise and kind son, Marcus. A found family is the family you make for yourself, as opposed to the family you were born into. Speaking of families, one of the areas where this book shines is that it features a found family as well as a biological one. With her life upended in more ways than one, Tiffany must make sense of who and what family could truly mean. However, Tiffany also has a secret: another man named Xavier Xavion thinks he might be her real dad, and he wants her to do a DNA test with him in seven days. After her mother’s death, sixteen-year-old Tiffany Sly goes to live with the family of Anthony Stone, her biological dad.
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