A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2023
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2023
An Award-Winning Author
In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined - to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is called a Blue - the color of sadness. She lives in a small-small room with her dog, who is "going wolf" more often - he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to "go wolf" too - she wants to know why she feels so Blue and what is beyond her small-small room. In the present, Imogen has intense phobias and nightmares of confinement. Her two older brothers used to help her, but now she's on her own, until a college student helps her see the difference between being Blue and sad, and Black and empowered.