Characters
This is the name of Stella's husband, her former boss from New Orleans
Who is Blake Sanders?
This is the all-white California community where Stella lives in 1968.
What is Brentwood?
This is what Stella tells Blake and Kennedy happened to her parents and relatives.
What is that they all died?
This is what Stella bakes to apologize to the Walkers.
What is a cake?
This is the name of Stella and Blake's daughter who suffers from nightmares.
Who is Kennedy?
This is what Stella protests at a homeowners meeting.
What is an African American couple buying a house in their community?
This is what Stella is afraid the new neighbors will discover about her.
What is that she is not white?
This is what Stella tells Kennedy not to do when she sees her playing outside with the Walkers' daughter.
What is play with Black people?
These are the names of the famous actor and his wife who move into the neighborhood.
Who are Reginald and Loretta Walker?
This is where the Walker family wants to send their daughter to school.
What is the all-white local school?
This is the person Stella thinks about and wonders what it would be like to talk to.
Who is Desiree?
This is what Stella tells Kennedy not to mention to her father about their visits with the Walkers.
What are their meetings and the girls playing together?
This character trait describes Stella's usual personality, making her emotional outburst at the homeowners meeting particularly surprising to Blake.
What is shy?
This shared experience connects Kennedy to her mother Stella's childhood, suggesting a possible hereditary pattern of anxiety.
What are nightmares?