One of Our Kind follows Jasmyn and King Williams as they move with their son, Kamau, to an exclusive, Black gated community in California called Liberty. Soon after moving there, Jasmyn begins to notice that the other folks living there are off and the mysterious Wellness Center seems to dominate the neighborhood. In the backdrop of another police shooting of a Black man and his child, Jasmyn tries to connect with other Black people in Liberty to show their support for the community, while exploring what exactly is going on in Liberty itself. 

Like a lot of others, I really struggled with this novel. The character of Jasmyn felt one note to me, she was so focused on Black trauma the entire time, and the book itself boils down Blackness to traumatic experiences, which was disappointing. I had a hard time understanding the motivations behind King and others in Liberty with their "solution" to being Black.