This book is a blended memoir/nonfiction history book about Jerkins' family and also the general migration of Black families in the U.S. I really enjoyed how parts of the book almost read like a travelogue, as Jerkins traveled to different places (mostly in the Southern U.S.) to learn about her family's history and the histories of other Black families. I also appreciated how much she discussed the shared and overlapping history of Black and Indigenous people in the U.S. I had learned a little bit about slave-owning Indigenous people from the This Land podcast, but I'll admit I really knew nothing else about how the two groups interacted and influenced each other's history, so that was interesting to learn. (Attica Locke's mystery HEAVEN, MY HOME also talks about Indigenous and Black people in East Texas, which was one of my favorite parts of that book.)