It All Comes Down to This
Finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize!
“Thoughtful and well wrought, this novel is compassionate, pointed, and empowering”
It is a summer of change for twelve-year old Sophie. Her dear sister, Lily, is going off to college at the end of August, leaving her alone to cope with a world suddenly grown hostile and her family becomes one of the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class Los Angeles neighborhood. In addition, the family has a new housekeeper who seems to dislike Sophie, just because… When riots erupt in nearby Watts, Sophie gets a new view of her place in the world and, ultimately, a new confidence and resourcefulness.