Rebecca, not Becky

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 1st Floor, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Fiction / Platt, Christine	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024
Malletts Adult Books, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Platt, Christine A.	4-week checkout	Due 04-14-2024
Westgate Adult Books, NEW Winter 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Platt, Christine A.	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024

Struggling to adjust to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia, De'Andrea Whitman is challenged by her therapist to make a white girlfriend and finds one in Rebecca Myland as they are brought together to fight back against the community's rising racial sentiments.
De'Andrea Whitman, her husband Malik, and their five-year-old daughter, Nina, are new to the upper-crust white suburb of Rolling Hills, Virginia; a move motivated by circumstance rather than choice. De'Andrea is heartbroken to leave her comfortable life in the Black oasis of Atlanta, and between her mother-in-law's Alzheimer's diagnosis, her daughter starting kindergarten, and the overwhelming whiteness of Rolling Hills, she finds herself struggling to adjust to her new community. To ease the transition, her therapist proposes a make a white girlfriend. When Rebecca Myland learns about her new neighbors, the Whitmans, she's thrilled. As chair of the Parent Diversity Committee at her daughters school, she's championed racial diversity in the community; and what could be better than a brand-new Black family? It's serendipitous when her daughter, Isabella, and Nina become best friends on the first day of kindergarten. Now, Rebecca can put everything she's learned about antiracism into practice; especially those oh-so-informative social media posts. And finally, the Parent Diversity Committee will have some; well, diversity. Following her therapist's suggestion, De'Andrea reluctantly joins Rebecca's committee. The painfully earnest white woman is so overly eager it makes De'Andrea wonder if Rebecca's therapist told her to make a Black friend! But when Rolling Hill's rising racial sentiments bring the two women together in common cause, they find it isn't the only thing they have in common. . . .

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