Kin Katia Lief She might not have meant

She might not have meant to build the perfect man

Then she gets the call

Or is he in over his head among the dark streets of Chicago

each bleeding into the other like a twisted dream I can’t wake from

Even before such moments

Kin Katia Lief She might not have meantVernice and Annie, two motherless daughters raised in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, have been best friends and neighbors since earliest childhood but are fated to live starkly different lives. Raised by a fierce aunt determined to give her a stable home in the wake of her mother's death, Vernice leaves Honeysuckle at eighteen for Spelman College, where she joins a sisterhood of powerfully connected Black women and discovers a world of affluence, manners,