We both took Dr. Kowalski’s class during our first semester and bonded quickly over our mutual love of books. But it’s more than that. Fiona’s parents are hugely successful lawyers in upstate New York—unlike me, she doesn’t need scholarship money to attend Camden—but being the only Black student in the entire prelaw program doesn’t exactly make it easy to fit in. It’s the unspoken knowledge that neither of us will ever belong in the rich boys’ club that makes us allies.
