A wealthy white family rents an apartment they own out to a single mother and her daughter, in the idyllic town of Shaker Heights, OH. The two matriarchs of the family butt heads over the fate of a third mother and daughter--a Chinese immigrant who abandoned her daughter outside of a police station in a moment of postpartum despair and now wants her back after finding out she's been adopted by a local family.

"Any downside?" - Feels half-baked. This is a book with an interesting premise, some interesting ideas, and some interesting characters, but they never satisfactorily develop or coalesce. The result is that the book is tonally disparate and the events end up feeling episodic and unrealistic. Somewhere in all this is the idea that the mid-90s idea of racial colorblindness and "not seeing race" was one driven primarily by the white ego in an effort to allow comfort-class whites to overlook and ignore racial equity when it comes to opportunity, justice, social influence, etc. But that's us doing a lot of the heavy lifting to tease that out. It's not well-developed in the narrative.

"Worth my time?" - Eh. It's not bad, but you can do better.