This Could Be UsSoledad Barnes has her life all planned out. Because, of course, she does. She plans everything. She designs everything. She fixes everything. She's a domestic goddess who's never met a party she couldn't host or a charge she couldn't lead. The one with all the answers and the perfect vinaigrette for that summer salad. But none of her varied talents can save her when catastrophe strikes, and the life she built with the man who was supposed to be her

unlike her retail co-worker Heaven

His teachers thought he talked too much and asked too many questions

Milo is on a long subway ride with his older sister

which plunges her into the gauntlet of social media which she hates and leads her to discoveries about her own identity and the value of true friendships

and people mentioned in the poem

the beyond-bitchy publisher of StyleZine

Playing to win is an entirely different game

and more trouble

Gia and Raashaun explore the entire chronology of their love story with remarkable vulnerability

When a stranger appears in the city

blazing red and burning bright

the few Black classmates she has are vanishing--or dying