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Thirteen-year-old Maggie Pugh's abusive relationship with her mother and her close friendships within the African-American community of Kinship, Georgia stir up racial tension and threaten the town's way of life.

Twelve-year-old Kasienka and her mother have immigrated to Coventry, England from Poland, searching for Kasienka's father, but everyone is unfriendly except for an African neighbor and a boy Kasienka meets at the swimming pool, which is her only refuge from an alien society.