When her sister, considered the perfect Mexican daughter by her parents, dies, Julia tries to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family despite her own grief and her mother's penchant for pointing out every possible way Julia has failed.

Told in diary format, fourteen-year-old Franny journals about the year her father goes to Japan on a research trip, while she is sent away to live with family members she didn't know she had, a situation that leads her to investigate the mystery behind her mother's death and discover a terrible truth.

'In the future, a Black girl known only as Inmate Eleven is kept confined--to be used as a biological match for the president's son, should he fall ill. She is known as a Blue, for the color of sadness. She lives in a small room with her dog, who is going wolf--he's pacing and imagining he's free. Inmate Eleven wants to go wolf too. She wants to know what is beyond her room. In the present, Imogen lives outside Charlottesville, Virginia. The pandemic...