Joined by her best friend, Peter Menon (whose surname cues him as Indian), Toni is trying to figure her life out-college or something else? She believes that if she performs in the festival’s Golden Apple amateur competition, the truth will become clear. Meanwhile, Toni Jackson is heading to Farmland for the first time without her musician-turned-roadie dad, who was killed 8 months ago. Imani agrees on one condition: Olivia cannot hook up with anyone on the trip. When dating the top basketball recruit in Indiana turns disastrous, ruining her socially, emotionally, and in her mother’s eyes, perpetually in love 16-year-old Olivia Brooks begs her best friend, Imani Garrett, to take a summer road trip to the Farmland Arts and Music Festival in Georgia. Packed with irresistible romance and irrepressible heart, bestselling author Leah Johnson delivers a stunning and cinematic story about grief, love, and the remarkable power of music to heal and connect us all.Queer Black girls fall in love at a summer music festival. Olivia and Toni will find that they need each other, and music, more than they ever could have imagined. As they work together, the festival becomes so much more complicated than they bargained for. When the two arrive at Farmland, the last thing they expect is to realize that they'll need to join forces in order to get what they're searching for out of the weekend. Unsure about who she wants to become and still reeling in the wake of the loss of her musician-turned-roadie father, she's heading back to the music festival that changed his life in hopes that following in his footsteps will help her find her own way forward. Toni is one week away from starting college, and it's the last place she wants to be. A crush-free weekend at Farmland Music and Arts Festival with her best friend is just what she needs to get her mind off the senior year that awaits her. But after the fallout from her last breakup has left her an outcast at school and at home, she's determined to turn over a new leaf. From the author of You Should See Me in a Crown, Leah Johnson delivers a stunning novel about being brave enough to be true to yourself, and learning to find joy even when times are unimaginably dark.
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