Dasani is too young to remember the moment, nine years ago, when her mother met Supreme at a homeless shelter in Harlem. Chanel was a recovering crack addict with two little girls—Dasani, then a toddler, and Avianna, still a baby. Supreme was a barber whose first wife had died of heart disease, leaving him with two small children of his own: Khaliq, who had trouble speaking, and Nana, who had trouble seeing.
