This novel is told from two alternating teenage protagonist voices: Zinnia in 2024; and her birth mother, Tuesday, from 2006.

Immediately after her birth, Zinnia is adopted by a white couple and raised lovingly with all needs and wants provided. Zinnia is smart, loves to read, and is determined to attend Harvard after high school, just like both of her parents; she knows nothing about her birth parents nor has she been very curious about them. This all changes for Zinnia when her best friend gifts her a book that seems to be describing Zinnia’s life story.

Tuesday – upon becoming pregnant knows that she is unable to care for her child in the way she wants to; nor does she have the support of her family – in fact she has the opposite and worries that her mother and the baby’s biological father’s family would cause harm if they were in the baby’s life. She has no choice but to give the baby up for adoption. Tuesday is a writer and has journaled about the details of Zinnia’s birth and circumstances surrounding those decisions. This journal end up in the hands of a writer who eventually steals the story to claim as her own.

Once this story gets into Zinnia’s hands, she begins a quest to find her birth mother.

The characterization of Zinnia and Tuesday is strong; however, the supporting characters lack the substance I wanted to really connect fully with the story. I do appreciate the themes of found family, adoption, and nature vs. nurture that arise. I think teen readers will resonate with the parts of the novel that show the protagonists having to make tough decisions for themselves amidst strong familial opinions – do we do what feels right, or do we do what others think we should?