This book was seriously amazing. It destroyed me in the best way. Gorgeous writing, wonderful and complex characterization, a beautiful arc. I now will read this author's entire backlist because it's just brilliant, in more ways than I have words for. 
 This novel is told from the POV of Jade, a fat Black poor teen artist growing up in Portland. It's very much about class, art, and finding ways to speak up for yourself and be true to who you are. It's also about police violence targeting Black folks, and activism against racist police violence. 
 Most of the central characters are Black women, both teenagers and adults. I love the moments between the women, watching Jade and her mentor, or her mentor and her mom. I especially loved getting to witness Jade's relationship with her mom, and how much support she draws from it. 
 The fat rep in the book resonated, felt real. Jade grapples with fat oppression and has an analysis of it, while it still also gets inside sometimes. That's generally one of the things about this novel that I loved the most, the way Jade has an analysis of so much that's going on, is constantly reading power and privilege at work, analyzing it, thinking about it, and is also touched so deeply by it emotionally. I loved being inside her head, seeing how she thought about things, from the Lewis and Clark expedition to misogyny to racist police violence to class dynamics to strangers on the bus. She is always thinking and always feeling, has such intense empathy and also so much emotional armor. The complexity of her POV grabbed me so hard, and there are just so many moments, small and big, that made me feel so much. 
 I want to mention that this is one of those rare YAs that does not have a romance plot or subplot. I really liked that about it. 
 I loved how much the book showed her thinking about and doing her art, how central that was. I really wished that I could see her work, kept trying to picture it in my mind. I love books with artist main characters that really take a breath in moments of creativity, let those moments have size and heft. This is one of the best I've read. It's a gorgeous book, and I am so happy that it is out in the world. 
 Trigger warnings: (view spoiler)[ Detailed description of police violence. Detailed description of street harassment by an adult man targeting a teen girl. Detailed description of fat hating sexual harassment by teen boys targeting a teen girl. MC frequently experiences racist, fat hating, and classist microaggressions and macroaggressions throughout the novel; they are always textually challenged, and sometimes also directly challenged by her or other characters. (hide spoiler)]