The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

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"Port of Spain, Trinidad. Audre is heartbroken, having just found out she's going to live in America with her father because her mother caught her with her secret girlfriend, the pastor's graddaughter. Audre's grandmother (a dancer who drives a white convertible Mercedes and who has a few secrets of her own) reassures her granddaughter that she won't lose her roots, not even in some place called Minneapolis. Minneapolis, USA. Mabel is staring at a picture of Whitney Houston, deep in her own feels--about her girl Jada and that moment they had in the woods, and about the vague feeling of illness she's had all summer. Mabel's daydreaming is cut short when her dad announces that a friend and his just-arrived-from-Trinidad daughter are coming for dinner. Mabel falls hard and fast for Audre and she's determined to help this beautif (but low-key nerdy) girl from the Caribbean find her way in America--never an easy thing for a Black woman, as Mabel knows. But their romance takes a turn when test results reveal exactly why Mabel has been feeling sick all summer. Suddenly it's Audre who must care for Mabel as she faces a deeply uncertain future."--Back cover