Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his Mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.
A sixteen-year old African-American girl's first celebration of Kwanza gives her a sense of the past and strength to deal with her troubled mother and her own blindness.
Joe's decision to leave home is prompted by despair over his mother's blindness to his younger brother's talents and his older brother's drug addiction.