Wow. I read this book so long ago. Published in 1987 (one of Oprah’s first book club picks I think) this really is an unusual and very affecting book, told completely in the first person by Ellen, maybe 11-years old and now with her new, self-picked surname, Foster — because she lives with her “new mama” and thought her (foster) mother’s name was, well, that. Ellen unfurls her new life while revisiting her journey there in such a unique voice and vernacular. Intensely touching with a racial theme — her best friend Starletta’s family cares for her when her real family will not and so Ellen experiences her own transformation with regard to race.
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