by Monica Raymond

In 1968, when Annie, a white college student goes to tutor Zafiya at the juvenile detention center, neither woman realizes how important they will turn out to be to each other. But as Annie goes from concerned do-gooder to underground revolutionary, and Zafiya goes from incarcerated juvenile to lesbian commune dweller, they wrestle with their memories of each other; of Tyrone, Zafiya’s Black Panther brother, killed by the Feds; and of Coreena, Zafiya’s daughter, taken from her at birth. A TO Z follows the journey of these two women, from the murder of Fred Hampton to the election of Obama, and through all the letters of the alphabet.