304 pages | Paperback

New York Timesbestselling, acclaimed author Rene Watson offers a YA novel about first love and how a girl finds herself and falls in love with who she really is.

When Nala reluctantly goes to an open-mic night for her cousin Imanis birthday, she falls in instant like with Tye, the MC. One problemTye is an activist, and Nala is more interested in enjoying a summer of movies and trying new ice cream flavors. To impress him, she tells a few tiny lies about what causes shes involved in. As the two spend time together, sharing more of themselves, those lies get harder to sustain. As Nala falls deeper into love and her lies, shell learn all the ways love is hard and radical, and that love of family, love of friends, love of community, and how self-love is revolutionary.
In a romance- but also other-kinds-of-love-filled contemporary story, Rene Watson explores what it means to show radical love to the people in your life, as well as to yourself.