Mia is both Jewish and Muscogee. She knows all about her Jewish heritage and customs, as her mother has her go to Jewish school. What she doesn’t know is about her Muscogee heritage, since her parents divorced when she was three. She is teased at school, when she mentions that she is Indigenous, and the only book she can find at the library is a horrid one that makes Indigenous people look like savages.

So she decides to take her Bat Mitzvah money and go to Oklahoma to visit her father, and find out about the heritage that she feels she should know about as well. But…she doesn’t tell her mother where she is going, and she doesn’t tell her father that she neglected to get permission to come.

Based on the authors own two heritages, this is a great story of becoming aware of what you are lacking, even though she went about it not quite the correct way. Very real feelings about how Mia feels out of place. And the logical way she came about solving that, even though it wasn’t the right way to do so.


Thanks to Netgalley for making this book available for an honest review. The book comes out August 15, 2023, and is to be published by Heartdrum, an imprint that focuses on contemporary Indigenous youth.