Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy in exchange for my honest review!

A story about two boys' summer in the 1930s living in the deep South. The plot itself seemed to meander and didn't really have a concrete point to it. I kept waiting for the overarching plot to establish itself, but it never did. Sometimes scenes seemed to abruptly end with no warning, making the plot feel a bit jerky. It alludes to or briefly mentions some of the serious dangers of living in the South as a black person in the 1930s, but it does nothing more than that. Also, the way the plot blurb was written paired with the genres this graphic novel was tagged with, I thought this was a story about adults. I also thought that the singer would feature more prominently, based on how the plot blurb was written, but she's barely in it. (Side note, why is this graphic novel tagged as "General Fiction [Adult]"? This is a middle-grade level story, both in dialogue and writing.) The ending itself is honestly kind of terrible. It just ends out of nowhere, and I thought I had accidentally skipped a page. But nope, it just abruptly ends. The art itself is fine at some points. I dislike how people are drawn, but all of the illustrations of nature are beautifully done. ( )