Chameleon AuraZimbabwean poet Billy Chapata provides a thought provoking take on the universal experiences of love, pain, and what comes next through messages of empowerment. This collection of poetry and prose will justify heartache and inspire the fortitude to survive and prosper.

Is her focus being tested

Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began

the girl's mother teaches her about the musicality of African

You are seen

In my family

during and after their ordeal

Maybe it's how you look or talk

and more--because there are countless ways to be Black enough

the women profiled in these pages were all taking a stand against a world that didn't always accept them

and how it will end

she's able to ignore all the constant questions about her future plans and falls hard for her creative and beautiful wife

Her mom has accepted a new job with the Sterling Foundation that comes with a free house