Eddie and his friends leave chalk stick figures for each other as secret codes. But when a chalk figure leads them to a body, nothing will ever be the same.

"In the summer of 1995, ten-year-old Joan, her mother, and her younger sister flee her father's violence to the only place they have left: her mother's ancestral home in Memphis. Half a century ago, Joan's grandfather built this majestic house for her grandmother--only to be lynched, days after becoming the first Black detective in Memphis, by his all-white police squad. This wasn't the first time violence altered the course of Joan's family's trajectory,...

When Duncan arrives at school one morning, he finds a stack of letters, one from each of his crayons, complaining about how he uses them.