I could have used a book like this during the summer before my senior year. Nala is on a big time journey of self discovery and self love after receiving a boy to get him to like her and lying about lots of aspects of her life. I admit that I really did not like her at first- she’s a very unsympathetic character in the beginning. But I found her evolution to be authentic and I liked how she took charge of her errors and digs in on the self love. I liked that her cousin-sister-friend Imani had things to learn, too. There are no perfect characters in this book. I admire the body positivity. I thought about Lizzo a lot during this book, probably because she has been staging these elaborate, sexy photo shoots of herself with zero shame about her size. And of course Renee Watson shouts her out at the end; some of the songs Nala rocks out to are inspired by Lizzo (and Lauryn Hill and Lucille Clifton poetry).