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Bisexual Content: A significant supporting character (cisgender woman) has/has had romantic and/or sexual relationships with people of more than one gender.
Intersecting Marginalized Identities: Most characters, including the bisexual character, are black.
Publisher's Summary: When Jean Sousa’s uncle, a high ranking politician on the fictional Eastern Caribbean island of Baobique is diagnosed with brain cancer, she goes back to visit him, to say goodbye to the man who convinced her to become a lawyer. The story shifts between Baobique and San Francisco, Jean’s two seemingly irreconcilable worlds. With the death of the family patriarch, a land dispute erupts and Jean finds herself and her lover right in the middle. Jean—forced to fight for her mother’s house, confront her own emotional frailty, and revisit her mother’s history of depression—must reconcile difficult family relationships and her place among them.