Disgruntled

An elegant, vibrant, startling coming-of-age novel, for anyone who''s ever felt the shame of being alive

Kenya Curtis is only eight years old, but she knows that she''s different, even if she can''t put her finger on how or why. It''s not because she''s black—most of the other students in the fourth-grade class at her West Philadelphia elementary school are too. Maybe it''s because she celebrates K...