SOLVED. YA, Book about Third Culture Kid who lived in Africa then returned to the US and tried to make friends with African Americans because she didnt understand that Blacks and Whites kept apart from each other. [s]

[Anne Hutchinson]

SOLVED. Main Character: American girl who grew up in Africa then returned to the States in her teens, makes friends with African Americans in the 60s, when there was lots of separation between Whites and Blacks.

YA

Cover: Yellow, with Pomegranates

I read it in 2019 but i don't think it was very new.

[Mai]

This was was published it 2019 but it fits your description!
The Means That Make Us Strangers by Christine Kindberg.


Home is where your people are. But who are your people?

Adelaide has lived her whole life in rural Ethiopia, where she and her family are the only white people she knows. Then her family moves to South Carolina, in 1964.

Adelaide promises she'll return to Ethiopia and become part of the village for good. But until she turns eighteen, Adelaide must adjust to this strange, white place everyone tells her is home. Then Adelaide becomes friends with the five African-American students who sued for admission into the white high school. As life in Greenville becomes more interesting, home becomes a much more complex equation.

Adelaide must finally choose where she belongs: the Ethiopian village where she grew up, to which she promised to return? Or this new place where she's become part of something bigger?

[Anne Hutchinson]

Oh my goodness, Thank you so much!!