Promise Keeper

In Verde Arzu's powerful second novel, Promise Keeper, Chandon Kilpatrick enters Franklin University, a historically Black college, with a quiet vow: to live life on her own terms—not her grandfather's, not the world's, just her own. But one heated argument with Corey—the sharp-tongued president of the Black Student Union—goes viral, and Chandon is once again labeled the girl who isn't "Black enough." Determined to reclaim her narrative, she joins the campus LGBTQ+ group and commits to a bo...