**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweepin...

**"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates to an affluent suburban enclave, but can’t escape the changes sweepin...