Freedom in Congo Square Fiction African American & Black Literary Small Town & Rural she asks: how did she

she asks: how did she get to be so old

Neon is locked in Aria’s bathroom

Shared as a lullaby to her daughter

Zadie Smith’s dazzling debut caught critics grasping for comparisons and deciding on everyone from Charles Dickens to Salman Rushdie to John Irving and Martin Amis

who’s in the midst of a career comeback

Freedom in Congo Square Fiction African American & Black Literary Small Town & Rural she asks: how did sheWinner of a Caldecott Honor and a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2016 A School Library Journal Best Book of 2016: Nonfiction Starred reviews from School Library Journal, Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and The Horn Book Magazine A Junior Library Guild Selection This poetic, nonfiction story about a little known piece of African American history captures a human's capacity to find hope and joy in difficult circumstances