In 1968, three young girls travel from Brooklyn to Oakland to reunite with the mother who abandoned them years before. Faced with a mother who still has no apparent interest in them, Delphine and her sisters are cared for by the local chapter of The Black Panther Party, who feed them breakfast in the morning (as part of the Free Breakfast for Children program) and teach them about revolution in the afternoon. 
 The characters were all fiercely independent, each in their own way, which made them interesting if not always likeable. Even the children were distinctive and believable, except for one particularly precocious moment by the youngest. I was most impressed by the depiction of subtle elements of the black experience in the 1960s as encountered and interpreted by people of different generations.