All My Friends Have Dark Brown Eyes
Fourteen-year-old Daisy Mae Herman has never known life outside her impoverished inner city Chicago neighborhood. Kalyn McKenzie is a sheltered only child in the middle class, mostly white part of town known as Westlake. Now, these two diametrically opposed worlds will intersect when the Herman family moves into the neighborhood where blacks are still a rarityand cause for alarm.Frank, compassionate and inspiring, All My Friends Have Dark Brown Eyes examines a shifting American racial landscape and the lives of those caught up in it. For Daisy, leaving her Chicago ghetto means turning her back on a comfortable cocooneven if its defined by a lack of opportunitiesfor an alien world where she is daily reminded of her outsider status. Meanwhile, Kalyns seemingly ideal upbringing belies a way of life thats eternally fearful of the unknown, as she is urged to avoid any contact with her new neighbor. Then a crisis erupts, putting something else ahead of stereotypes: survival.As Daisy and Kalyn navigate the racial divide that separates them, their lives will intertwine in unexpected ways, leading to explosive events that rock each family to the core. And neither is prepared for the end result?Ǫ